My original intent was to write a more positive article about something else entirely, but the events of the last few days have prompted me to write this relatively short and controversial blog instead!

David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball.

Our Cape Town blogger Lion's latest post: Failed Jews are our burden. They are entirely our fault. That should never happen: they are a measure of the extent to which we have failed to practice ahavat Yisrael.

I’m tired of black phones with ugly buttons that are just purely functional. I’m a girl and I demand girliness. I don’t spend time making myself look good just to haul out a scratched, charcoal brick out of my pretty handbag.