Syria Forfeited Its Claims to the Golan Heights When It Used Them to Attack Israel
Recognition of Israeli sovereignty upholds the international order.
March 28, 2019
A Poet’s Lament for Poland’s Lost Shtetls
Post-Holocaust towns populated by biblical ghosts.
One of the foremost figures in post-World War II Yiddish literature, Chaim Grade is best known for his works of fiction. But in the 1930s he began his literary career—in the then-Polish city of Vilna—as a poet. He wrote the poem “Jewish Towns of Poland” in Paris in 1947; in it, the evidently Jewish speaker travels through what had by now become a judenrein country. To great effect, Grade populates the shtetls with biblical figures, as in the following excerpt, from a new translation by Julian Levinson:
March 28, 2019
The Israeli Response to Recent Rocket Attacks Marks a Strategic Shift
No longer playing by Hamas’s rules.
The French Legal System Tries to Blame Sarah Halimi’s Murder on Marijuana Rather Than Anti-Semitism
Radical Islam or reefer madness?
A Hasmonean-Era Village Discovered in Jerusalem
Evidence of one of the city’s golden ages.
A Poet’s Lament for Poland’s Lost Shtetls
Post-Holocaust towns populated by biblical ghosts.