Ruth Wisse

Jan 23, 2025 | wsj.com | Ruth Wisse

Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Władysław Bartoszewski did his countrymen a great disservice last month when he announced that Benjamin Netanyahu would face arrest if he attended the Jan. 27 ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. He said membership in the International Criminal Court obligated Poland to respect its warrants for the arrest of Israel’s prime minister and defense minister.

Nov 18, 2024 | lubavitch.com | Ruth Wisse |Abraham Sutzkever

Following the events of October 7, I reached back to a poem I committed to memory when I first read it—a poem written when we Jews thought that the worst was already behind us. I was born in East Central Europe in 1936, and raised in Canada as a fortunate immigrant in the 1940s, and I consider it the greatest privilege of my life to have seen the establishment of the state of Israel.

Aug 22, 2024 | combatantisemitism.org | Verity Stevenson |Juan Melamed |Yossi Lempkowicz |Ruth Wisse

Anti-Israel demonstrators protesting the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago this week engaged in egregious displays of antisemitism and support for terrorism. As the convention unfolded, protesters carried signs outside reading “Globalize the Intifada” and “End Israel, Stand With Hamas.” Other demonstrators flew the Hamas flag and said, “I am Hamas.

Aug 21, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Ruth Wisse

Thomas Aquinas, relying heavily on Maimonides’ discussions of biblical commandments, called the commandments involving the God–man relationship “ceremonial precepts” and those involving interhuman relationships “judicial precepts.” . . . Concerning the moral commandments, most Christians would agree that in general they apply to all mankind. . . . Concerning the ceremonial precepts, Christians part company with Jews. But different Christians do so in different ways.

Aug 19, 2024 | ruthfullyyours.com | Ruth Wisse |Ruth King

Oct. 7 is widely recognized as “the deadliest day for the Jews since the Holocaust,” yet some Americans — notably the tens of thousands marching on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week — are celebrating the cloning of Nazism. Last century, the United States led the fight against those massacring the Jews. Yet today’s college students are cheering on Hitler’s successors. Many American Jews were “shocked, but not surprised” when antisemitism shot up virulently here on Oct. 8.