The Attacks on Jews Nobody Talks about
Attacks that can’t be connected to Israel or to Donald Trump.
May 3, 2019
A Poetic Reflection on Israel’s Two Days of National Mourning
“A Week Apart.”
On the Israeli calendar, three days of national commemoration follow Passover in quick succession. Yom Hashoah falls on the 27th of Nissan, and Yom Hazikaron—the day of remembrance for Israeli soldiers—falls a week later on the 4th of Iyyar, followed by Independence on the next day. (In 2019 the dates correspond, respectively, to May 2, 8, and 9.) The Israeli poet Tzur Erlich describes this stretch of days in four compact rhymed verses, titled B’hefresh shel shavua (“A Week Apart”). Herewith, an English translation by Ehud Schwammenthal and Michael Doran; the Hebrew original is available at the link below.
May 3, 2019
A Recent Ruling against an Anti-Boycott Law Misconstrues Precedent
Wrongheaded invocations of the First Amendment in defense of BDS.
How Anti-Zionism Has Normalized Anti-Semitism
Only one form of hatred of Jews is acceptable in polite society.
How Jerusalem Rabbis Used Kabbalistic Magic to Try to Defeat Hitler
By slaughtering roosters on an airplane.
A Poetic Reflection on Israel’s Two Days of National Mourning
“A Week Apart.”