The UAE’s changes to its school curriculum are welcome—with a grain of salt.
Including a menorah that was lit again last month.
Here are excerpts from some of our favorite conversations last year, with subjects including Jewish life in Ukraine, Arabs and the Holocaust, China’s Haifa port, and more.
Menachem Schmelzer, in memoriam.
A new British study documents rising antipathy toward Jews.
A documentary about music under the Third Reich.
“As lighthearted as a sermon by Jonathan Edwards and as relaxed as a vacation to Putin’s Moscow.”
Reading The Oppermans is like riding a Ferrari into a slow-motion car crash.
A well-organized attack, carried out in the public eye.
Rabbis had figured previously in Yiddish literature, but they were usually secondary characters.
Focusing on America’s failures to save more Jews in the Holocaust unintentionally strengthens the forces that would threaten Jews today. Here’s how.
Elie Wiesel and Emmanuel Levinas revered the man known as Chouchani.
And to keep Jews from leaving Europe.
To the British Foreign Office, their report was the “usual Jewish exaggeration.”