America paid Iran $1.7 billion in cash—funds that by law were not to be released unless and until Iran paid what it owed to American victims of its terrorism.
As a powerful new exhibit shows, the 16th president felt a close connection to the Jewish people. Why?
He did. A recent book is a damning polemic against him and also against America’s most politically connected Jewish leader. Yet it’s hard to imagine things ending differently.
Fifty years on, no work by or about Jews has won American hearts so thoroughly. So what’s my problem?
It’s not why you think.
“Oh, just some words that my family always says when we enter a church.”
A posthumous collection edited by his son Daniel clarifies the great columnist’s legacy to American, and to Jewish, discourse.
Why do we Anglicize some names and not others?
Desperate to preserve the nuclear deal, Iran with the help of its Western friends is creating just enough turmoil to make America, and not it, appear eager for war.
A leading historian of American Judaism discusses Abraham Lincoln’s fascination with the Jews—and Jews’ fascination with Lincoln.
The untold story of Israeli hydrodiplomacy, from the 1950s until now.
What I witnessed in my two decades of teaching at Harvard.
After decades of wariness, the two nations are being drawn together by common interests and shared fears.
On Martin Luther King Day, the ghost of the great civil-rights leader was summoned to condemn Israel. The problem? While alive, King had plenty of opportunities to do so—and never did.
