How the Death of Mahsa Amini Changed Iran—and Its Western Apologists
Silencing the disingenuous cries of “Islamophobia.”
September 28, 2022
The Two Jews Who Escaped Auschwitz to Warn the World
To the British Foreign Office, their report was the “usual Jewish exaggeration.”
On April 7, 1944, a nineteen-year-old named Walter Rosenberg and a twenty-five-year-old from the same town in Slovakia named Fred Wetzler became the first Jews to escape from Auschwitz. The two made their way through the Polish countryside and into their native country, where Rosenberg—taking the name Rudolf Vrba as cover—tried to get the story of what he saw to his fellow Jews, and to the world at large. Robert Philpot, reviewing a new biography of this forgotten hero, writes:
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The Constitution and New York’s Efforts to Control the Yeshivas
So long as it sticks to the basics, the state can impose its demands.
A British Student Receives a Failing Grade for Writing the Truth about Hamas
No country for Jewish sociologists.
How the Jewish Calendar Became the Israeli Calendar
What a news item about a pre-holiday chicken shortage reveals.
The Two Jews Who Escaped Auschwitz to Warn the World
To the British Foreign Office, their report was the “usual Jewish exaggeration.”