It’s Past Time for Europe to Take Action against Hizballah
It has over 1,000 operatives in Germany alone.
October 26, 2021
The Jewish Naval Hero Who Donated New York’s Banished Thomas Jefferson Statue
Uriah P. Levy, lover of religious liberty.
Last week, a statue of Thomas Jefferson was removed from the council chamber in New York’s city hall, where it has stood since 1915. The statue is a painted plaster model used by the French sculptor Pierre-Jean David d’Angers when he created an identical bronze likeness, which now sits in the Capitol rotunda. In 1833, Uriah P. Levy commissioned the sculpture, and the next year brought both it and the model to the U.S. Jonathan Sarna tells the story of this Jewish naval veteran, who intended the statute “to serve as a symbol of religious liberty.”
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An Environmental Group Refused to Join a Protest So Long as Jewish Organizations Were Participating
“Statehood and sovereignty” for everyone but Jews.
The U.S. Should Seize the Opportunity to Reform the UN Human Rights Council
And make good on its promise.
The Jewish Naval Hero Who Donated New York’s Banished Thomas Jefferson Statue
Uriah P. Levy, lover of religious liberty.
Defending Jonathan Sacks’s Theology of the Stranger from His Orthodox Critics
The Talmud understands “love the stranger” to mean “love the convert.” Does it also apply to other strangers?