It happened on the twenty-ninth day of the month of Sivan, in the year 5701, and it happened in the Slobodka neighborhood of the Lithuanian city of Kovne. To put it another way, it happened on the twenty-fourth of June,…
Most people hate to speak ill of the dead. They look for something nice to say about even the not-so-dear departed. People’s natural imperfections usually seem to shrink when they leave this earth. Not so with Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, as…
I hadn’t heard of the 2018 film Operation Finale until the other night, when I was scrolling through the offerings on Netflix in search of something that might not be utter rubbish. After pondering a few other options, I decided…
I’ve made exceptions for Ken Burns because he is an exceptional artist. I did not spend time on television, but when I saw a bit of his Civil War history, I carved out a lot of time, all the time…
My wife, daughter, and I traveled east last week to go to a wedding. Before we headed back home, we went to visit my aunt. My dear aunt is in her 90s and just as much of a live wire…
Because my several thousand readers in The American Spectator seem mostly to be devout Christians (although rumor has it that Jews read me, too, as do agnostics and even anti-Semites), I present herein more universal thoughts rather than purely Judaic…
The Holocaust inspired many of my generation to vow “Never Again!” Not that it never again will happen because, really, who can assure that? Only G-d, not mortals. But we undertake never again to watch timidly from safety afar as…
The Putin-Ukraine thing is a mess. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky certainly seems a well-meaning guy, but Putin realistically is not a madman nor a Hitler. Putin is complex. He is a murderer, for sure. His opponents get stabbed in West…
The images from Ukraine in recent days have been shocking, but Russian President Vladimir Putin will have to descend even lower into the realm of pure evil than he’s already gone if he hopes to do to the Ukrainian people…
