I have spent my career in academic science and believe that merit and objectivity are essential guarantors of the scientific enterprise. Boycotts pose the greatest threat. Today, they are being used to target Israel, but, in reality, they are aimed…
It’s rightly been called the airlift that saved Israel. And an airlift that interrupted my English history professor’s lectures. On Oct. 6, 1973, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, Israel was attacked by the Soviet-backed forces of Egypt and Syria….
Editor’s Note: This is the second of four articles covering the interlinked topics of Israel’s relations with the U.S. and the challenge posed by Iran’s nuclear program. Much of what follows, especially as to diplomatic maneuvers, is drawn from a…
Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails By Camper English (Penguin Books, 368 pages, $18) Walk into the average American grocery store and you will see the spices in one aisle, herbal cures in…
The thesis of Cynthia Farahat’s The Secret Apparatus (Bombardier Books) is that the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization founded in Cairo in the 1920s by an Egyptian, Hassan al-Banna, is the principal force behind the modern Islamic campaign for world domination….
Basking in the results of last week’s elections, President Biden has flown across the world to exercise his diplomatic expertise again. It could have been worse. Arriving in Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt, to attend the latest UN conference on global warming, Biden…
Friday marked the first anniversary since Israel and the United Arab Emirates issued a joint statement supporting normalized relations in the Abraham Accords. Since then, the Trump administration brokered three more normalization accords between Israel and Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan….
The story of the Exodus recited around the Passover table contains this introduction: Had the Holy One, blessed be He, not taken our ancestors out of Egypt, then we, our children, and our children’s children would still be enslaved to…
President Trump’s call with French president Emmanuel Macron on Monday has focused his attention on de-escalating the dispute between France and Turkey in Libya. Tensions between the two countries have simmered since a June 10 incident in the Mediterranean. French…