The European Union’s Absurd Insistence That Hizballah Is Not a Terrorist Group
To protect Lebanon’s stability, sanction, rather than protect, Hizballah.
July 20, 2020
The Lost World of African American Cantors
“He sings with a real Jewish turn, with a real Jewish moan and sigh.”
During the first half of the 20th century, American Jews became eager consumers of cantorial music. This was also a time of increased interaction between Jews and African Americans—by the 1920s Harlem had become home to the world’s second-largest concentration of Jews—and the proliferation of black synagogues. Perhaps one result of these trends, writes Henry Sapoznik, was the phenomenon of the black cantor:
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Does the Presence of Anti-Semitic Activists Help or Harm Critics of the Louisville Police Department?
Nobody should want friends like Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory.
The Lost World of African American Cantors
“He sings with a real Jewish turn, with a real Jewish moan and sigh.”
Why Donald Trump’s Peace Plan Might Accomplish What Others Have Not
Along with an insiders’ look at George W. Bush’s Middle East Policy.
Uncovering the Story of the Concentration Camps on British Soil
The isle of Alderney.