The Iran Deal Is Based on a Lie
If Tehran didn’t honor its obligations, neither need Washington.
May 3, 2018
A New Unpublished Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
My quarrel with Berish Zhichliner.
Searching through Isaac Bashevis Singer’s archives, the literary scholar and translator David Stromberg discovered the Yiddish manuscript of a previously unknown story titled “The Boarder,” together with a typed English translation. While neither text bears a date, Stromberg speculates that both the original and the translation were produced in the mid-1950s, and that Singer did the translating himself or with assistance from a collaborator. The story—available here—involves a conversation between an older, devout Jew, Reb Berish, and his younger, impious boarder, Melnik, about the possibility of faith after the Holocaust. In an interview with Deborah Treisman, Stromberg comments:
May 3, 2018
Saudi-Russian Collusion to Raise Oil Prices Is Bad for the U.S.—and for Saudi Arabia
Not just an issue for American consumers.
A New Unpublished Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
My quarrel with Berish Zhichliner.
An Egyptian-Aramaic Papyrus Contains Rosh Hashanah Prayers from the 8th Century BCE
Scholars have deciphered three ancient psalms.
How the Mossad Ran a Seaside Resort as a Front for Rescuing Ethiopian Jews
Operation Brothers.