Iran Is Training Iraqis to Shoot Missiles at Israel, and the U.S. Is Paying for It
Iraq’s version of Hizballah attacked a Saudi pipeline, but may soon have access to American F-16s.
July 8, 2019
The Two Halves of an Algerian Torah Scroll, United after 180 Years
One in France, the other in Kansas.
When the manuscript expert Paul Mirecki discovered half of a Torah scroll—ripped asunder mid-verse—in the University of Kansas collections, he began a quest for the other half. Some two years later, he has found it and reconstructed the story of the scroll, thought to have been written sometime in the 18th century. Jon Niccum writes:
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Will Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Continue to See Themselves as a People Apart?
They benefit from multiculturalism, but don’t necessarily accept its assumptions.
Contra Paul Berman, Bernie Sanders Won’t Be a Bulwark against anti-Semitism on the American Left
If Sanders can’t summon the political courage to fight anti-Semitism when it’s easy to do so, what are the chances he’ll do so if it becomes difficult?
For the Jews of Russia, World War I Brought Persecutions, Slaughter, and Poverty
The first great Jewish catastrophe of the 20th century.
The Two Halves of an Algerian Torah Scroll, United after 180 Years
One in France, the other in Kansas.