The Syrian Civil War Is Changing Arab Attitudes toward Israel
As Arab rulers and their peoples come to see that Islamism and Iran are the real threats.
October 10, 2019
When a Mexican Revolutionary Invaded the U.S., Possibly in Search of a Jewish Shopkeeper
Sam Ravel and Pancho Villa.
In 1916, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa led a cross-border raid on Columbus, New Mexico—killing nineteen and burning down buildings before being chased off by American soldiers. As a result of the raid, the Wilson administration sent a contingent of troops into Mexico, led by General John Pershing, to capture Villa. Historians still dispute the reasons for the original raid, but both contemporary accounts and oral histories taken decades later mention that he was looking for a Russian Jewish immigrant named Sam Ravel, who fortuitously was in El Paso at the time. Stacey Ravel Abarbanel, Ravel’s granddaughter, writes:
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Israel’s Religious-Music Revolution Can Bring It Closer to the Diaspora
The annual piyyut festival.
A Romanian Film about Holocaust Remembrance and Denial Is a Searing Satire with a Dark Void at Its Core
Only interested in dead Jews.
Whatever Happened to God and Country?
Younger Americans value patriotism, religion, and family far less than they did a few decades ago.
When a Mexican Revolutionary Invaded the U.S., Possibly in Search of a Jewish Shopkeeper
Sam Ravel and Pancho Villa.