How to Increase Pressure on the Islamic Republic Without Starting a War
Tighten sanctions and punish its proxies.
June 27, 2019
How a Pulpit Rabbi Became the Translator of One of the 20th Century’s Great Yiddish Writers
Chaim Grade’s Christmas tree.
Speaking on a public phone about synagogue business in 1979, Rabbi Harold Rabinowitz threw a Yiddish sentence into the conversation. As a result, he was approached by an old man who needed a speech translated from Yiddish to English in a hurry. Rabinowitz complied. The next day he received a call from the same man, who turned out to be Chaim Grade—one of the greatest Yiddish novelists of the post-World War II era. Thus began Rabinowitz’s career as Grade’s English translator. Barbara Finkelstein recounts his experiences with both the writer and his notoriously difficult wife, Inna Hecker Grade:
June 27, 2019
Whatever the Kushner Plan’s Flaws, They Won’t Be the Reason It Fails
What the critics don’t understand.
For the New Campus Anti-Zionists, Social Justice and Liberation Entail the End of Jewish Self-Determination
Jews of the diaspora, not Israel, are paying the price.
A Southern Gentile’s Year-Long Odyssey Teaching at an Orthodox School in New York
Borne with grace, barukh hashem.
How a Pulpit Rabbi Became the Translator of One of the 20th Century’s Great Yiddish Writers
Chaim Grade’s Christmas tree.