The off-Broadway experience on everyone’s radar these days, surprisingly, is showing at the Center for Jewish History. In commemoration of the 80^thanniversary of the death of Anne Frank, they have mounted an installation that includes a full-scale replica of the secret annex in Amsterdam where she, her family and a few others hid until they were betrayed by the Dutch and arrested by the Gestapo.

You would be forgiven if this past week confused you about the state of antisemitism in America and what can, and what should not, be done about it. There was even a self-destructive reminder of how Jews themselves feel about what’s been happening around them—a crisis manifested in both the hatred of Jews, and Jewish self-hatred.

Newly re-elected President Donald Trump shocked the world this week with a radically alternative vision of the Middle East. Four years away from the Oval Office apparently resulted in the kind of original thinking that would never have occurred to all those think tank “experts” running on empty. They prefer doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

Over the weekend, the first phase of the temporary 42-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continued with the release of three more hostages: American-Israeli Keith Siegal, French-Israeli Ofer Kalderon, and Argentinian-Israeli Yarden Bibas. They were exchanged for 183 Palestinian prisoners.