Why Now Is the Time to Strike Iran
Flipping the strategic script on the Islamic Republic.
March 6, 2026
A Great Soviet Jewish Writer’s Story of the Odessa Underworld
“Di Grasso.”
Maxim Shrayer shares a new translation of a short story by the great Soviet Jewish writer Isaac Babel. Titled “Di Grasso” and written in 1937, two years before the author’s arrest, it isn’t included in the standard collections of Babel’s work. Like many of his earlier writings, it is set in his native Odessa. It begins thus:
March 6, 2026
What Marco Rubio Really Said about the Timing of the War
He was in fact emphasizing U.S.-Israel cooperation.
Gavin Newsom Believes Israel-Bashing Is the Way to Get the Democratic Presidential Nomination
A contemptable interview.
A Great Soviet Jewish Writer’s Story of the Odessa Underworld
“Di Grasso.”
The Canadian Rabbi Who Passed Off Sherlock Holmes Fan Fiction as a Lost Rabbinic Manuscript
Yudel Rosenberg, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Maharal.