Maintaining Security Cooperation with the PA Shouldn’t Require Ignoring Its Support for Terror
Mahmoud Abbas’s fake financial crisis.
May 23, 2019
In the Face of Hatred, Jews Must Reject Despair and Cling Tightly to the Keys of the Past
Kaddish amidst the bones of Brisk.
Earlier this year, construction workers laying the foundation for a new apartment building in the Belarusian city of Brest, known in Yiddish as Brisk, discovered a mass grave holding the bones of over 1,200 people—the ghoulish evidence of a Nazi massacre of local Jews. Upon a recent visit to Brest, Meir Soloveichik—whose great-great-grandfather, the pathbreaking talmudist known as Ḥayyim Brisker, as well as his father, were rabbis in the city—recited kaddish on behalf of the dead. He writes:
May 23, 2019
Al Sharpton’s Appearance at a Major Jewish Event Doesn’t Make Up for His Past Incitements
Reform Jews weren’t beaten or murdered in the Crown Heights riots.
An Upcoming Summit in Bahrain May Not Be a Harbinger of Peace but Is Nonetheless a Welcome Sign
The Arab world might be more inclined to normalize ties with Israel than some think.
In the Face of Hatred, Jews Must Reject Despair and Cling Tightly to the Keys of the Past
Kaddish amidst the bones of Brisk.
A New Translation Allows Readers to Follow Avraham Sutzkever’s Poetic Journey from Siberia to Tel Aviv
A great Yiddish poet’s past and future.