Jerusalem: The Eternal City of Jewish Longing
The resurrection of Jerusalem, after centuries of wandering and the near-death experience of the Holocaust, eludes simple rational explanation.
December 18, 2017
Sweden Has an Anti-Semitism Problem. But Politicians Would Rather Blame It on Israel Than Acknowledge Where It Comes From
Muslims and the far left, not the far right, are responsible for most of the attacks on Jews.
For the past several years, Swedish Jews have grown accustomed to taunts, harassment, and sporadic violence, emanating mostly from the country’s Muslims. Just recently, there have been two separate fire-bombings of Jewish institutions, and some 200 people marched through the city of Malmo chanting “we will shoot the Jews.” To compound the problem, politicians simply refuse to acknowledge that their country’s openness to immigrants and refugees and supposed tolerance are a threat to its Jewish citizens, while the media are content to contribute to the rampant anti-Semitism. Paulina Neuding writes:
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Why the U.S. Must Assume a More Direct Approach to Rolling Back Iranian Power
Lebanon’s stability is not a U.S. interest.
Sweden Has an Anti-Semitism Problem. But Politicians Would Rather Blame It on Israel Than Acknowledge Where It Comes From
Muslims and the far left, not the far right, are responsible for most of the attacks on Jews.
How Ancient Hebrew Poets Commemorated Hanukkah Even When Rabbis Ignored It
Liturgical tributes to the Hasmoneans in 7th-century Palestine.
How Sephardi Refugees Brought Chocolate to France
They were plugged into an international network of Iberian exiles.