Reuven Firestone
By Reuven Firestone
-
Opinion My Meeting With Fethullah Gülen, the Man Accused of Plotting Turkey’s Coup
Last month, I met with Fethullah Gülen, “the man behind the coup,” according to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, who accuses this reclusive cleric of being the brains behind the failed coup last summer in Turkey. Since 1999 Gülen has lived in exile from his homeland in a small compound converted out of an…
-
Opinion No, Pamela Geller, the Qur’an Is Not Anti-Semitic
Pamela Geller, left; Qur’an, right / Getty Images Soon you will see ads, courtesy of Pamela Geller, in the New York City subway system that state, “Islamic Jew-Hatred: It’s in the Qur’an.” Is she right? It’s easy to understand why many Jews might think so. Anti-Semitism has become a frightening force in much of the…
Explore
Most Popular
In Case You Missed It
-
Yiddish ווידעאָ: אַ שמועס וועגן ייִדיש אינעם 16טן יאָרהונדערטVIDEO: A talk about Yiddish in the 16th century
קלאַודיאַ ראָזענצווײַג רעדט וועגן דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור אין איטאַליע, בפֿרט וועגן אליהו בחורס „בבֿא־בוך“
-
Culture He was a Jewish leftist like Sandy Koufax — remembering Howard Zinn
-
Fast Forward Report: Freed hostage Emily Damari asked if American-Israeli Keith Siegel could take her place
-
Fast Forward Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
