Is Iran Walking away from the Nuclear Deal?
It just took another American hostage.
November 3, 2015
Der Nister: Forgotten Master of Yiddish Modernism
Murdered by the Soviets.
Pinḥas Kahanovich (born in Russia in 1884) was a prolific author of Yiddish-language poems, short stories, essays, and novels under the pseudonym Der Nister (“the Hidden One”). His work drew on Jewish mysticism and folktales as well as on European modernism. Along with many other Soviet Jewish writers, he was sent to the Gulag after World War II, and executed in the early 1950s. Boris Sandler tells the story of his life. (Video, in Yiddish with English subtitles, about 5 minutes).
November 3, 2015
Does Mass Migration of Muslim Refugees Pose a Threat to European Jewry?
In all likelihood, yes.
When Religion Refuses to Go Away
On Michael Walzer’s The Paradox of Liberation.
“Rothschild & Sons”: A Musical about the Great Jewish Banking Family
By the songwriters behind Fiddler on the Roof.
Der Nister: Forgotten Master of Yiddish Modernism
Murdered by the Soviets.