Israel said it received a request for earthquake relief from Syria and will send aid. Bashar al-Assad ’s government, which maintains a state of war with Israel, denies having made the request. Israel’s willingness to help care for enemy civilians reminds me of a story I discovered in the journal of my maternal grandmother, Bronia Feldman Rubinstein . A Polish Jew, Bronia was imprisoned during much of World War II in several Nazi concentration camps, including Bergen-Belsen, and worked as a nurse in the camp infirmary. In that capacity, she made a habit of deceiving the Nazis by reporting that...