A synagogue is bombed in the middle of Passover. This would be, prima facie, an antisemitic act. Few would argue otherwise—unless, of course, the bombing was carried out by
“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark His return to Earth.” This is how, amid the escalating war
The Hebrew Bible teems with episodes of violence. Particularly relevant this year is the story of Jacob’s two sons, Levi and Simeon, massacring the entire male population of a
The apparently incongruous expression ‘Old-New’ is taken from the title of Theodor Herzl’s 1902 novel, inspired most likely by the name of the famous Altneuschul, Europe’s oldest functioning
In March 1896, William Hechler, the Anglican chaplain at the British Embassy in Vienna, came across a book titled Der Judenstaat (The State for Jews). Hechler belonged to a centuries-old
