Hizballah’s Plan for a Subterranean Attack on Israel
Preparations for the Third Lebanon War.
December 6, 2018
Sorry, “New York Times,” Hanukkah Celebrates Religious Freedom, Not Persecution
And American Jews needn’t be hypocrites.
On Sunday, the New York Times published an op-ed article titled “The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah,” in which Michael David Lucas—a novelist who this year decided to do some cursory research on the subject—reports discovering that the holiday commemorates a war between radical Hellenizers and those who wanted to preserve Judaism. The author cites Hasmonean efforts to repress Hellenistic Jews while making no mention of the persecution of Jews at the hands of the Syrian Greeks (or “Romans,” as Lucas had it before a correction was published). Jonathan Tobin explains what he gets wrong:
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Recent Polls Suggest Many Palestinians Would Accept Compromises Unthinkable to Their Leaders
Giving up the “right of return” for an independent state.
Sorry, “New York Times,” Hanukkah Celebrates Religious Freedom, Not Persecution
And American Jews needn’t be hypocrites.
Philip Johnson, Nazi Sympathizer and Synagogue Architect
The shockingly easy rehabilitation of an admirer of Hitler.
The United Arab Emirates’ Lone Synagogue Hesitantly Comes out of the Shadows
The Jews of Dubai.