Henry Kissinger Didn’t Betray Israel During the Yom Kippur War
In fact, he gave Golda Meir vital encouragement.
July 30, 2019
The Son of Jewish Immigrants Who Made $10 Million While a Soviet Mole
The story of David Karr.
“In the 1930s and ’40s,” David Evanier writes, “there were any number of American Communists so enamored of Joseph Stalin and the shining tomorrows he promised that they would do anything for the Soviet Union, disdaining payment of any kind.” David Karr wasn’t one of them. Yes, born in 1918, he was raised in the Jewish immigrant Brooklyn from which emerged many American Jewish Communists, and yes, he spent the early years of his adult life as a true believer, and yes, he may have been a Soviet mole—but he certainly didn’t disdain payment for his efforts.
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The Son of Jewish Immigrants Who Made $10 Million While a Soviet Mole
The story of David Karr.
When the Reform Movement Needed a “Bureau of Summer Services” to Combat Summer Loucheness
Smiles of a Jewish summer’s night?
Israel Is in the Middle East, Israelis Are Middle Easterners, and Don’t You Forget It
Israel as “part of the continuum of Judaism in the Muslim world.”
The Corbyn Anti-Semitism Problem Marches On
The universe will end before the Labor leader puts a stop to anti-Semitism in his party.