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
What Did Medieval Jews Expect for Their Christian Neighbors?
Destruction vs. redemption—and the remarkable survival of European Jewry.
The beginning of the First Crusade in 1096 ushered in a new era of persecution and violence for the Jews of France and Germany, after a few centuries of relative tranquility and economic and intellectual flourishing. Perhaps, then, it is no surprise that Ashkenazi Jewish writers from the 12th century onward display increasing contempt and derision toward their Christian neighbors. David Berger, one of the foremost historians of this subject, notes how medieval Jewish works internalized the Christian stereotype of Jews as ugly and physically deficient, even as they claimed this as evidence of Jewish superiority.
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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?”