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Jul 13, 2025, 11:41 AM

A Stone for the Forgotten: Jewish Graves at a Commonwealth Cemetery in Hungary

Commonwealth War Cemetery in Solymár, Hungary (Photo: Tamás Szórád / Air Base Blog)

When I married a New Zealander, I inherited a quiet reverence for a holiday I had never observed before: ANZAC Day. In Budapest, that meant attending remembrance services at the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Solymár, just outside the city. Each...

Warren J. Blumenfeld

Jul 8, 2025, 7:11 PM

Comparing Germany & the US South’s Reflections of the Wars They Instigated

In the aftermath of two tragic wars perpetrated and rationalized on the socially constructed notion of “race” and racial superiority, and tied to issues of economics and land acquisition or maintenance, how have Germany following defeat in WWII and...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jun 26, 2025, 8:26 AM

The Future of Israel’s Nuclear Deterrent Strategy

The 1968 "Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)" Article IX stipulates that nuclear-weapon states are those that “developed and tested nuclear weapons before January 1, 1967”. Thus, only five countries are considered “nuclear states”: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom,...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jun 19, 2025, 11:14 PM

War and money-making

Why is no one talking about this? Some nuggets of information that should inform our grasp of modern war. Intellectuals have taken over the Left in Europe. The Left in the US never developed political power. Intellectuals feel uneasy thinking about...

Jun 10, 2025, 5:24 PM

‘The Art Spy’ by Michelle Young – A Book Review

What most intrigued and shocked me in reading this well-written and deeply researched new biography and history called The Art Spy (New York: HarperCollins, 2025, 390 pages, including notes) by the American art historian Michelle Young about Rose Valland (1898-1980), the...

Jun 10, 2025, 5:08 PM

Survival in Sarajevo: The Story of La Benevolencija and a City’s Jewish Lifeline

Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, sits quietly in a valley surrounded by green mountains—its cobblestone streets and historic mosques, churches, and synagogues tell stories of a city that has long been a crossroads of cultures and faiths....

Jun 5, 2025, 11:43 PM

Russia and Ukraine–Heavenly Reward and Punishment

I visited the impressive memorial in Netanya yesterday - commemorating the contribution of the Red Army in WWII and the battle sites in defeating the Nazis and liberating the death camps. Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Putin had dedicated...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

May 30, 2025, 12:23 PM

Totally Destroying Gaza: Rational or Rationale?

Along with a solid majority of Israelis, I too think that the Israeli government should place the hostages’ return as its number one priority – and totally defeating Hamas as only a secondary goal at this point in time....

May 29, 2025, 11:32 PM

Trivializing the Shoah

Though it was odd, perhaps, of God to choose the Jews, it is much odder to abuse the Jews by claiming that their near-extinction does not deserve the horrible distinction of being as unique as God was said --- first by Jews! --- to...

Alexandre Gilbert

May 27, 2025, 5:54 PM

Michel Onfray Interview | Alex Gilbert #275

Michel Onfray (Wikipedia CC BY 4.0)

Michel Onfray is a french philosopher. He published L'autre collaboration (Plon) in 2025. Your latest book deals with the barely concealed antisemitism of post-war French philosophers, from Sartre to Beauvoir and the French Theory, most of whom were staunch Heideggerians....

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