France and Britain Should Be Supporting Israel in Its Fight with Hizballah, Not Condemning It
They are doing Lebanon no favors.
April 15, 2026
John Updike’s Jewish Problem
“Updike’s Jews are grotesque, the men hairy and hunched, the women dumpy and frizzy-haired.”
A self-described “rural Lutheran” raised in small-town Pennsylvania, the novelist John Updike achieved prominence at a time when Jews dominated the American literary scene. Updike, who was friendly with many of these Jewish writers, even attempted a fictional step into their world, as Jesse Tisch writes:
April 15, 2026
How Iran Dragged Israel into Its War with America
Seven myths that need debunking.
Iran Hasn’t Won the Confrontation over Hormuz
Not bugging out.
John Updike’s Jewish Problem
“Updike’s Jews are grotesque, the men hairy and hunched, the women dumpy and frizzy-haired.”
Preserving American Jewish Life Outside the Big Cities
The number of synagogues in the U.S. has dropped by a fifth since 1990.