To the Arab World, Jewish Sovereignty Is a Rebellion against Islam Itself
Seeing the Israel-Palestinian conflict in broader context.
October 7, 2019
A Rare Portrait of Yom Kippur in Germany from America’s First Female Jewish Novelist
Cosella Wayne.
Born in either Germany or France in 1824, Cora Wilburn came to the U.S. in 1848 and in 1860 published the novel Cosella Wayne serially in the journal Banner of Light. The novel, in the words of the historian Jonathan Sarna, was the first “written and published in English by an American Jewish woman writer, and the first coming-of-age novel to depict Jews in the United States.” Drawing on her travels in Venezuela, England, India, and elsewhere before coming to America, Wilburn—writing for a primarily Christian audience—depicts the Jewish communities in these countries in rich detail. Herewith, an excerpt set in a German synagogue on Yom Kippur sometime in the 1830s:
October 7, 2019
An Israeli Journalist’s Apology to the State of Israel
For the sins of attacking the electoral system, of not defending Israeli society, . . .
A Rare Portrait of Yom Kippur in Germany from America’s First Female Jewish Novelist
Cosella Wayne.
A 21st-Century Manifesto from Corbynism’s Leading Intellectual
Paul Mason’s Clear, Bright Future is neither clear nor especially bright.
In Minnesota, Republicans Have Their Own Anti-Semitism Problem
The GOP’s Ilhan Omar?