Qatar Supports Hamas and Gets Away with It
A safe haven, financial backer, and propagandist.
October 17, 2023
“Rough Diamonds” Gets the Details of Hasidic Life Right, but Fails to Create Compelling Characters
Intrigues, tsuris, and Albanian gangsters.
Speaking of Yiddish, you can hear it spoken on the television series Rough Diamonds, along with a host of other tongues—a detail explored by our language columnist Philologos. Emil Stern provides a more general revies of the show, which focuses on a family of ḥasidic diamond merchants in Antwerp, their wayward son, and the clan of Albanian mobsters he has married into:
October 17, 2023
Hamas Isn’t Using Human Shields, but Human Sacrifice
Stopping Gazans from fleeing the war zone.
Do Jewish Lives Matter?
Western leftists are eager to stand up for oppressed people of all kinds, but not slaughtered Israelis.
Yiddish Literature’s Reckoning with Tragedy
And with the scope of Jewish, and human, existence.
“Rough Diamonds” Gets the Details of Hasidic Life Right, but Fails to Create Compelling Characters
Intrigues, tsuris, and Albanian gangsters.