What Israel Needs to Stop Iran’s Nuclear-Weapons Program
It will have to execute a complex operation—and then defend itself from Hizballah’s retaliation.
October 25, 2021
Thomas Jefferson’s Banishment from New York’s City Hall Is Bad News for the Jews
And an insult to the Jewish naval hero who commissioned the statue.
By unanimous vote, New York City officials decided last week to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from the chamber where the city council meets. While the case against the third president as a slaveholder is well known, the statue’s removal, Samuel Goldman writes, is a repudiation of the Declaration of Independence that he authored. It is also an insult to Uriah P. Levy, the Jewish naval hero who in 1833 commissioned the sculpture of Jefferson of which this one is a replica:
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For the Anti-Israel Left, the Jewish State Is but a Screen onto Which It Projects Its Fantasies
An obsession and an abstraction.
Thomas Jefferson’s Banishment from New York’s City Hall Is Bad News for the Jews
And an insult to the Jewish naval hero who commissioned the statue.
What Did Medieval Jews Expect for Their Christian Neighbors?
Destruction vs. redemption—and the remarkable survival of European Jewry.
The Religious Truth behind Jewish Humor
“What’s purple, hangs on the wall, and whistles?”