Maintaining Security Cooperation with the PA Shouldn’t Require Ignoring Its Support for Terror
Mahmoud Abbas’s fake financial crisis.
May 23, 2019
A New Translation Allows Readers to Follow Avraham Sutzkever’s Poetic Journey from Siberia to Tel Aviv
A great Yiddish poet’s past and future.
The great Yiddish poet Avraham Sutzkever (1913-2010) wrote poems while confined by the Nazis to the Vilna Ghetto, where he labored tirelessly to preserve Jewish books and manuscripts before escaping to take up arms with local partisans. After World War II, he settled in Israel, where he did much to foster and encourage other Yiddish writers while composing a prodigious poetic legacy of his own. Reviewing a newly published volume of his work, translated into English by Richard Fein, James Nadel writes:
May 23, 2019
Al Sharpton’s Appearance at a Major Jewish Event Doesn’t Make Up for His Past Incitements
Reform Jews weren’t beaten or murdered in the Crown Heights riots.
An Upcoming Summit in Bahrain May Not Be a Harbinger of Peace but Is Nonetheless a Welcome Sign
The Arab world might be more inclined to normalize ties with Israel than some think.
In the Face of Hatred, Jews Must Reject Despair and Cling Tightly to the Keys of the Past
Kaddish amidst the bones of Brisk.
A New Translation Allows Readers to Follow Avraham Sutzkever’s Poetic Journey from Siberia to Tel Aviv
A great Yiddish poet’s past and future.