“In the mid-19th century,” Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern writes in this week’s cover story, “James G. Birney, a former slaveholder hailing from Danville, Kentucky, recognized the societal scourge that was the slave trade and decided to do something about it.”

Hanukkah reminds Jews to keep their eye on the prize: the preservation of our unique heritage. This is a calling that is independent of haters.

Bibi, a modern and sophisticated secular Jew, hardly endorses any of this extremism, and he is surely aware of how badly all of this will play with Israel’s friends and allies, not to mention much of Israeli society.

“We must fight in a strategic and firm way, without giving the haters the massive publicity they crave. It is that publicity, as much as anything else, that normalizes antisemitism.”