An End to the Islamic Republic Should Be America’s Goal
Iran has been at war with us for 40 years.
July 1, 2019
Refusing to Pander to the Bolsheviks, a Great Soviet Jewish Writer Still Hoped for a Better Soviet Jewish Future
Pinḥas Kahanovitsh, the Concealed One.
In 1947, resuming an initiative that has begun much earlier, Stalin sent over 10,000 Jews from the war-ravaged western part of the USSR to the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, a remote and inhospitable region wedged between Siberia and Manchuria. Among the 1947 contingent was the poet and writer Pinḥas Kahanovitsh, known by his pen name Der Nister (the Concealed One), whose writings from those years have recently been published in English translation by Ber Kotlerman. Allan Nadler, in his review, contrasts Der Nister to his contemporaries:
July 1, 2019
Jared Kushner’s Peace Proposal Would End the Palestinian Refugee Problem
Unlike in 1959, Saudi Arabia doesn’t seem to object.
Refusing to Pander to the Bolsheviks, a Great Soviet Jewish Writer Still Hoped for a Better Soviet Jewish Future
Pinḥas Kahanovitsh, the Concealed One.
What’s Wrong with David Brooks’s Pronouncement That “We Are All Jews”
A new version of an old shortcut.
The Adventures of a Mossad “Associate”
Breaking into Assad’s toilet and establishing diplomatic relations with China.