Hamas’s Deadly Escalation at the Gaza Border
The goal: to take a hostage and bargain for the end of the embargo.
October 16, 2018
By Turning against the Jews, Women’s Studies Admits Its Bankruptcy
Celebrating anti-Israel screeds.
In September, the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)—the most prominent academic organization in the field—gave an annual book prize to The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, published by Duke University Press. The book, written by Jasbir Puar, a professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, is a collection of scurrilous, perverse, and sometimes absurd accusations of Israeli evildoing. To Cary Nelson, the decision sounds the death knell for the entire field:
October 16, 2018
How to Get a Better Deal from Iran
Europeans, Democrats, and pushback on the ground.
By Turning against the Jews, Women’s Studies Admits Its Bankruptcy
Celebrating anti-Israel screeds.
How Medieval Rabbis Influenced Their Christian Contemporaries’ Bible Commentaries
When Rashbam talked Torah with monks.
Two Forgotten Poems by a Distinguished Yiddish Poetess
Of refugees and pigeons.