Those Clamoring about U.S. Aid to Israel Seek Cover for Their Own Moral Bankruptcy
The United States and Israel represent one possible way of being in the world, Hamas and Iran represent another. Which side do we want to be on?
May 19, 2021
The Historian, Partisan, and War Hero Who Led Yad Vashem
Yitzḥak Arad, of blessed memory.
Born in the Polish shtetl of Swieciany (now Svencionys) in 1926, the great historian of the Holocaust Yitzḥak Arad died in Tel Aviv on May 6. Arad, himself a survivor of the Shoah, was the director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993, and authored several important historical works on Hitler’s war against the Jews. Joseph Berger tells his story, beginning with his teenage years in a Nazi ghetto:
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No, the Current Round of Fighting Doesn’t Show the Abraham Accords to Be a Failure
Missing the point.
The “Proportionality” of Israel’s Self-Defense
Misunderstanding the laws and ethics of war.
A Rabbi Explains the Jewish Way of Reading the Bible to a Protestant Scholar
Seeing scripture as a problem to be solved.
The Historian, Partisan, and War Hero Who Led Yad Vashem
Yitzḥak Arad, of blessed memory.