History & Ideas
Thanks to the new Beit Shemesh highway.
Warder Cresson/ Michael Boaz Israel ben Avraham.
Julia Berenice.
And accusations that they tolerate “white nationalism.”
Along with a winepress and a magnificent synagogue.
Precious little, you would think. But actually, thanks to one figure in the story, quite a lot.
Dire predictions have accompanied every influx of newcomers—including the Jews—in American history. And yet these are the very people who have helped build the country.
Elusa.
The historian’s new book sets out to conduct a clear-sighted tour of 21st-century anti-Semitism, but her vision turns out to be occluded.
A Jewish version of an Islamic practice, later adopted by Muslims.
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.
And why Israel and the U.S. should stop neglecting the Hebrew Bible.
Even during the turn-of-the-20th-century Great Wave of migration to America, the proportion of Jews wasn’t high enough to present a serious threat to anyone.
And tried to call attention to the Holocaust.
