How a Secular Woman from Tel Aviv Rose to the Top of Israel’s National-Religious Political Bloc
The story of Ayelet Shaked.
August 8, 2019
Avraham Sutzkever’s Astonishing Escape from the Vilna Ghetto
The great poet safely traversed a minefield by counting in poetic meters.
“You could take [his] life from beginning to end and it would be the most astonishing guide to the most dramatic moments in Jewish history of the 20th century,” the Yiddish scholar Ruth Wisse says in a new documentary about Avraham Sutzkever, the great Yiddish poet. Sutzkever has long been known both for his poetry and for his testimony at the Nuremberg trials in Germany after the war. Less known is his and his wife Freydke’s escape from the Vilna Ghetto in 1943. Cnaan Liphshiz narrates it.
August 8, 2019
Tracing One Jewish Joke Through Its Many Tellings
“I am tired and thirsty, I must have . . .”
Hamas’s Plans for the New Ceasefire? Loading Up on Guns and Missiles
Peace is just a chance to reload.
What Happened When We Tried to Count the Number of Reform Jews in Israel
Reform might function as a political identifier there, not a religious one.
Avraham Sutzkever’s Astonishing Escape from the Vilna Ghetto
The great poet safely traversed a minefield by counting in poetic meters.