Hamas and Fatah Make Peace, Shattering the Fantasy of Mahmoud Abbas’s Moderation
To Palestinian leaders, anything is better than a peace plan.
July 7, 2020
A Popular American Yiddish Novel about a Modern Woman’s Personal “Battle against Free Love”
Not much sex in the city.
While the curious English-language reader can find some of the great works of Yiddish literature available in translation, the vast corpus of popular fiction remains untranslated. Jessica Kirzane has changed this with her recent rendering into English of Miriam Karpilove’s Diary of a Lonely Girl: The Battle against Free Love—first published serially from 1916 to 1918. In her review, Dara Horn writes
July 7, 2020
It’s Time for the U.S. to Place Conditions on Aid to Lebanon
Don’t bail out Hizballah.
The Antidefamation League Makes Common Cause with a Notorious Anti-Semite
Unfazed by the blood on Al Sharpton’s hands.
A Popular American Yiddish Novel about a Modern Woman’s Personal “Battle against Free Love”
Not much sex in the city.
Did the Sinn Féin Influence an Israeli Chief Rabbi’s Vision of Jewish Politics?
Halakhic thought tends naturally to theocracy.