Who’s Really Politicizing Israel?
Is there an argument that a diminished Israel is in the interest of the United States?
August 22, 2019
The French Jews Who Fought the Nazis and Brought the “Exodus” to Israel
A forgotten part of a well-known story.
Fictionalized by Leon Uris, and later made into a movie, the story of the Exodus—a ship that left France in July 1947, carrying some 4,500 Holocaust survivors, headed for Mandatory Palestine—is well known in the West. The British, unwilling to allow more Jews into the Land of Israel, turned the ship back; its passengers refused to leave the French port; and eventually the Royal Navy brought them to Hamburg. Less well known is the group of former French resistance fighters who helped organized Exodus’ departure, as Tsilla Hershco writes:
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The Dangers of Donald Trump’s Talk of Jewish Disloyalty
Not a determination for an American president to make.
The French Jews Who Fought the Nazis and Brought the “Exodus” to Israel
A forgotten part of a well-known story.
When the Ukrainian KGB Apologized for the Persecution of a Rabbi
The arrest records of Levi Yitzḥak Schneerson.
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