September 2017
- In Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine,’ echoes of Nazi justifications for aggressionWhen Adolf Hitler was justifying German aggression, he invoked Lebensraum — the claim that a superior nation had the right to expand into neighboring territories to secure the resources it needed. For Donald Trump, whose “Donroe Doctrine” seems to have much in common with the idea of Lebensraum, the prizes are Venezuelan crude, Greenland’s mineral... […]
- The Holocaust Torah that survived a Mississippi synagogue fire was brought there by the state’s only survivorWhen firefighters cleared Beth Israel Synagogue after an arson attack this month, the library floor was slick with water and ash. Prayer books lay swollen and blackened. Smoke clung to the sanctuary walls. Two Torah scrolls burned. A third Torah did not. That Torah, displayed for decades in a glass case near the front of... […]