Gaza and the Civil War within Islam
A Hamas victory will inspire Islamists everywhere.
December 26, 2023
Tom Stoppard Realizes His Audience Understood Something about “Leopoldstadt” That He Didn’t
Who knew a play about anti-Semitism would be so timely?
Tom Stoppard’s much-acclaimed Leopoldstadt tells the story of a Viennese Jewish family as it contends with assimilation, intermarriage, anti-Semitism, and, eventually the Holocaust. Since writing it, Stoppard reports having lost whatever faith he might have had in the “universal spirit” of humanity:
December 26, 2023
The War with Hamas Enters a New Phase, While Israel Readies to Confront Hizballah
Tunnels, domestic politics, and the popular mood.
Tom Stoppard Realizes His Audience Understood Something about “Leopoldstadt” That He Didn’t
Who knew a play about anti-Semitism would be so timely?
Capturing the Beautiful Music in the Talmud’s Minutiae
A book more serious than its title suggests.
The Mysteries of Jerusalem’s Ancient Moat
Possibly built centuries before King David.