How Israel Should Respond to the New American National Security Strategy
Cooperation is key.
December 27, 2017
The Unlikely Story of Canada’s First Jewish Parliamentarian
Moses Cohen and George Benjamin.
Born in 1799 to a Sephardi family in the English city of Brighton, Moses Cohen took the somewhat less Jewish name of George Benjamin at the age of twenty-three and then set off for the U.S., where he settled in North Carolina. Not long after his marriage to a twelve-year-old Jewish girl, he brought his new family first to Toronto and then to the town of Belleville, some 100 miles to the east. Benjamin made little of his religion, but he also did not keep it a secret. Later, his conservative politics—which he had first embraced in England—would lead him to a career as a newspaperman and politician. Allan Levine writes:
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Why Guatemala Was the First to Join the U.S. in Recognizing Jerusalem
A lasting friendship.
American Jews Should Join Christians in Defending Religious Liberty
A progressive majority shouldn’t be able to force religious minorities to comply with its views.
The Unlikely Story of Canada’s First Jewish Parliamentarian
Moses Cohen and George Benjamin.
Calcutta’s Synagogues Are a Model of Muslim-Jewish Comity
Local Muslims and Hindus even attend Jewish schools and learn Hebrew songs.