The UN’s Shameful Gaza Report
A massive new inquiry wanders through bizarre linguistic and moral alleyways.
June 24, 2015
Benjamin Zuskin’s Life and Death on the Soviet Yiddish Stage
"Even the slightest breeze and he is already air-bound."
The actor Benjamin Zuskin spent most of his career working for the Soviet Union’s state-sponsored Yiddish theater, created in 1920. In 1949, Zuskin was arrested, along with several leading figures in Soviet Yiddish literature; most, including Zuskin, were executed in 1952. Dara Horn reviews a “painstakingly researched” memoir about Zuskin by his daughter, Ala Zuskin Perelman:
June 24, 2015
Making the Same Mistakes about the Islamic World
How Western policymakers fundamentally misunderstand the Middle East.
Benjamin Zuskin’s Life and Death on the Soviet Yiddish Stage
"Even the slightest breeze and he is already air-bound."
At the Core of White Supremacist Thought: Anti-Semitism
Did you know the banks and media are run by (greedy) Jews?
The “Sheer Improbability” of the Masada Opera Festival
An operatic experience like no other.