Most Clicked This Week
- Yemen Jewish community under more duress
- "A low-tech, high-energy hour managed to be both perfectly silly and profoundly moving" (and it was almost 100% non-political)
- Bernard Zell Anshe Emet School Head responds to Chicago Contrarian criticism
- Trump order specifically highlights the activities of three chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as a threat to the United States
- "Brexit, for all its drama, was merely a warning. The basic demand is for a moderation of the centralizing tendencies, unchecked immigration, runaway political correctness & metastatic government that have characterized the West in these last decades"
- Netanyahu announces easing of health restrictions
- IHRA definition of antisemitism "controversial" where it recognizes that double-standard criticism of Israel is actually Jew-hatred
- Have you heard the one about three guys (one of whom is the Son of Hamas) who go into a tunnel?
Category Archives: Politics
“I naively believed that STEM would be spared from the ideological takeover. I was wrong, says Princeton professor Sergiu Klainerman.
COMMON SENSE WITH BARI WEISS There Is No Such Thing as “White” Math by Sergiu Klainerman March 1, 2021 …Attempts to “deconstruct” mathematics, deny its objectivity, accuse it of racial bias, and infuse it with political ideology have become more … Continue reading
“Gantz says there is ‘likelihood’ Tehran behind explosion in Gulf”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Blaming Iran, security officials said to back response to blast on Israeli ship by Staff and AP February 27, 2021 Israeli security officials view the attack on an Israeli-owned ship in the Persian Gulf on Friday as … Continue reading
“Next month, Israelis will go to the polls to elect a new 120-seat Knesset. It will be Israel’s fourth general election in just under two year”
NEWSWEEK Netanyahu and Israel’s NeverNetanyahu Right by Caroline Glick February 25, 2021 …Despite Netanyahu’s demonization at the hands of the media at home and abroad, his positions are not extreme. They involve standing up for Israel’s rights and interests, developing … Continue reading
“US President Joe Biden speaks to Saudi King Salman ahead of the release of the declassified US intelligence report on the killing and dismemberment of the US-based journalist”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Ties with Saudis at stake as US releases findings on Khashoggi killing by AP and ILH staff February 26, 2021 The United States has pledged to tell the world its conclusions on what role … Continue reading
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“Manfred Gerstenfeld was a Jewish renaissance man and a prodigious writer who leaves a rich legacy in many different realms. Born in Vienna in 1937, he and his family were forced to flee, and survived the Holocaust by hiding in a small apartment in Amsterdam”
JERUSALEM POST Remembering Manfred Gerstenfeld – Jewish renaissance man by Gerald M Steinberg February 25, 2021 …In the past two decades, Gerstenfeld became a leading expert on antisemitism – particularly the European resurgence, and warning of the “new” manifestations such … Continue reading
“The Iranians didn’t realize that Biden is not Obama, and that in the end they will miscalculate and get hit”
ALGEMEINER Report: Israel ‘Very Pleased’ With US Strikes on Iranian Targets in Syria, Was Informed in Advance by Staff February 26, 2021 Israeli officials were “very pleased” with US airstrikes against Iran-backed militias in eastern Syria Thursday, and were informed by the … Continue reading
“Contrary to Stanisław Żaryn’s excuses, no reputable historian believes that ‘the Polish nation’ was responsible for Nazi German crimes in Poland. Which is why the Polish government should leave the writing of history to historians”
TABLET MAG The Polish Government’s Holocaust ‘Truth Campaign’ Is a Weird Mix of Authoritarianism, Ignorance, and Injured Pride by Havi Dreifuss February 25, 2021 …[Poland’s] new law deputized the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN)—a central institution with state-sponsored prosecution powers—to … Continue reading
A haunting question threatened the psyches of many Black Americans after the civil rights era: What do I do with my life when the “deliverance quest” for which I was searching finally has been delivered by the republic of the United States?
THE HILL Reparations: A Black existential crisis and supremacy for liberal whites by Jason D. Hill February 22, 2021 …The demand for reparations is a response to a crisis of meaning in the lives of many Black Americans living in … Continue reading
“Netanyahu swiftly expressed concern last Friday after Secretary of State Tony Blinken said the U.S. was prepared to begin nuclear talks with Iran aimed at restoring the 2015 deal”
AXIOS Scoop: U.S. and Israel to convene strategic forum on Iran by Barak Ravid February 24, 2021 The United States and Israel have elected to reconvene a strategic working group on Iran, with the first round of talks on intelligence surrounding … Continue reading