Progressive Jews Abandon Their Commitment to Jewish Solidarity at Their Own Peril
Something is rotten in the state of liberalism.
October 12, 2018
Jewish Fate and the Soviet-Jewish “Madam Bovary”
Dovid Bergelson’s Yiddish masterpiece and his untimely death.
Arrested in 1949 on charges of “anti-Soviet crimes,” the great Yiddish author Dovid Bergelson was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad in 1952. Bergelson had fled the Soviet Union in 1921 for exile in Berlin, but in 1926 began to take a more pro-Soviet stance, arguing that the USSR was the best place for Yiddish culture to flourish, and he moved to Moscow in 1934. Dara Horn writes:
October 12, 2018
Why the White House Should Demand Answers about Jamal Khashoggi
But there’s no reason to jump to conclusions about his fate.
Jewish Fate and the Soviet-Jewish “Madam Bovary”
Dovid Bergelson’s Yiddish masterpiece and his untimely death.
Rededicating a Two-Thousand-Year-Old Synagogue in the Golan
After fifteen years of restoration.
How to Read Biblical References to Dragons
An answer to ancient Near Eastern mythology.