The Multifaceted Risks of Sending Iron Dome Technology to Ukraine
Transferring the missile-defense system to Odessa would be costly, dangerous, and possibly useless.
March 24, 2022
The Kindertransport’s True Legacy
Less than a “noble tradition.”
In discussions regarding Britain’s obligations to Ukrainian refugees, notes Jonathan Freedland, many commentators have invoked the Kindertransport, in which specially chartered trains brought thousands of Jews below the age of seventeen to England in the months prior to World War II. Freeland argues that appealing to the Kindertransport as a “noble tradition of looking after refugees,” as the conservative pundit Simon Heffer put it, is both self-serving and inaccurate:
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The Growing Tension Between Saudi Arabia and the West
Attempts to placate Iran have soured American and British relations with Riyadh.
The Kindertransport’s True Legacy
Less than a “noble tradition.”
How Judaism Views the Relationship between General Knowledge and Religious Study
Norman Lamm, Torah u-madda, and 21st-century Orthodoxy.
The “Song Searcher” of Jewish Ukraine
A new documentary about the man who captured Ukraine’s Jewish music.