Israel’s Current Government Aims to Imitate Benjamin Netanyahu’s Great Economic Transformation
Before the coronavirus crisis, there was the economic crisis of the second intifada.
August 10, 2021
Osip Mandelstam: the Soviet Jewish Poet Who Rejected Propaganda and Denunciations—and Dared to Mock Stalin
“The honorable title of Jew, of which I am proud.”
Born in Warsaw in 1899 to a well-to-do Jewish family, Osip Mandelstam grew up in St. Peterburg, and eventually became one of the greatest Russian-language poets of his day. Reviewing a recent collection of translations of his work, Sophie Pinkham analyzes Mandesltam’s poetry, which resisted the radical avant-garde style of the early Soviet era, even as it marked a decisive break with the trends popular in his youth. She also comments on his return to Jewish themes later in his career, after a period when Stalinist repression became more severe:
August 10, 2021
Anti-Semitism Is a Hatred Unlike Any Other
What Yair Lapid got wrong.
What Christians—and Everyone Else—Can Learn from the Jewish Way of Studying the Bible
A rabbi and a pastor-turned-professor walk into a podcast . . .
Osip Mandelstam: the Soviet Jewish Poet Who Rejected Propaganda and Denunciations—and Dared to Mock Stalin
“The honorable title of Jew, of which I am proud.”
A Year after Normalization, Israel and the UAE Are Enjoying the Dividends of Peace
Over half a billion dollars in trade.