Repeating Old Mistakes Won’t Help the People of Gaza
It’s necessary to resist fantasizing about the motivations of the involved parties.
January 2, 2019
Amos Oz’s Place in the Jewish Literary Canon—in His Own View
Will he be placed with Sholem Asch or with S.Y. Agnon?
The acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz died last week at the age of seventy-nine. While his passing has already begun to generate reflection on his place in Hebrew literature, his final novel, in Michael Weingrad’s analysis, itself addresses this very question. Judas, published in English translation in 2017, has as its central character one Shmuel Asch, who is writing a dissertation about Judas Iscariot. Weingrad writes in his review:
January 2, 2019
The Pros and Cons, for Israel, of the U.S. Withdrawal from Syria
The foundation of the Jewish state’s security doctrine is that it will defend itself.
Amos Oz’s Place in the Jewish Literary Canon—in His Own View
Will he be placed with Sholem Asch or with S.Y. Agnon?
Recent Attacks on J.K. Rowling Reveal Something about the Anti-Semitism of the Left
Those who insist that an anti-Zionist need not be an anti-Semite unwittingly prove the opposite.
Remembering the French Jew Who Saved Hundreds of Children during the Holocaust
Georges Loinger.