Why Indonesia Could Be the Next Country to Normalize Its Ties with Israel
The world’s largest Muslim-majority nation should stop treating the Jewish state like a mistress.
January 7, 2022
An Italian Writer’s Idiosyncratic, and Very Jewish, Retelling of the Bible
Why not see the fearfully diffident Saul by way of Harpo Marx?
In The Book of All Books—published last year in English translation just after the author’s death—Roberto Calasso attempts to do for the Tanakh what he in a previous work did for Greek myths: reinterpret it in a modern literary form. Robert Alter writes in his review:
January 7, 2022
Iran Is Smuggling Weapons to Israeli Arabs
But Israeli Arabs have little interest in the civil war Tehran wants to foment.
A Veteran Broadcaster Explains Why the BBC’s Anti-Semitism Drove Him to Resign
Combating the problem is akin to trying to stop a tsunami with a sandcastle.
An Italian Writer’s Idiosyncratic, and Very Jewish, Retelling of the Bible
Why not see the fearfully diffident Saul by way of Harpo Marx?
The Jewish Jungian Who Believed the Key to Spiritual Revival Lay in Hasidism
Erich Neumannn and the “spiritual crisis” of modern Jewry.