Iran’s Recent Attack on an Israeli Vessel Has Revealed Israel’s Maritime Vulnerability
One of Tehran’s many attempts at nautical terror succeeded.
March 4, 2021
Are Two of the Most Promising Recent Hebrew Novels Just Too Darn Long?
A defense.
Reviewing three works of Israeli literature, Haim Watzman—an American-born Israeli writer and translator—labeled them “never-ending stories” that are simply “too long,” and admitted that he stopped reading all of them before he was halfway through. Jessica Cohen, also a well-regarded translator of Hebrew books into English, argues that Watzman has done a disservice to two of them:
March 4, 2021
Diagnosing the Weakness That Has Enabled European Anti-Semitism
Manfred Gerstenfeld, in memoriam.
Israel’s Landmark Conversion Ruling Won’t Do Much for Actual Converts
A political football.
Richard Wagner’s Jewish Problem—and Everybody Else’s
Wagnerism.
Are Two of the Most Promising Recent Hebrew Novels Just Too Darn Long?
A defense.