From the Editor | Dinner with the 1947 Partition Plan

From the Editor | Dinner with the 1947 Partition Plan

One Saturday night not long ago, I went to dinner at a restaurant with a dear friend. He brought along a black leather satchel, his Havdalah kit. When we sat down, he poured wine, lit the braided candle and sang the Hebrew prayers in his sonorous voice. Then he surprised me by drawing an envelope from the depths of the Havdalah bag and laying on the table an original January 13, 1898 edition of the Parisian newspaper L’Aurore, featuring Émile Zo…