In Yemen, Iran Is Testing Weapons and Tactics for Future Use against Israel
The IDF must pay close attention.
October 4, 2019
Israel, Alone among Nations, Stirs Artists to Silence Other Artists
Why a BDS activist shouldn’t get a prize named for Nelly Sachs.
Last month, the German city of Dortmund decided to rescind the Nelly Sachs Prize—named for a Jewish poet and dramatist who received a Nobel prize in 1966—which it had recently awarded to the Anglo-Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie. The judges reconsidered because of Shamsie’s vocal and longstanding support for the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel (BDS). The decision provoked fulmination from Shamsie and a letter signed by 250 indignant writers and published at the London Review of Books website. Howard Jacobson comments:
October 4, 2019
Israel, Alone among Nations, Stirs Artists to Silence Other Artists
Why a BDS activist shouldn’t get a prize named for Nelly Sachs.
Columbia University Celebrates Anti-Semitism
A visit from Mahathir Mohamad.
Pre-Yom Kippur Thoughts about Two Giants of Hebrew Literature, Separated by 900 Years
S.Y. Agnon, Solomon ibn Gabirol, and “The Sign.”
Orthodox Schools Are Right to Oppose Government Intrusion—but Must Provide Their Students with Adequate Secular Educations
“If a father doesn’t teach his son a trade, it’s as if he taught him highway robbery.”