With the Recent Attack on the London Metro, Jihadist Terror Has Reached a New Stage
Low-hanging fruit.
September 18, 2017
S.Y. Agnon and the Orthodox Jewish Reader
A City and Its Fullness.
The recently published A City and Its Fullness brings into English, for the first time, a cycle of stories by S.Y. Agnon (1888-1970), the Nobel Prize-winning Hebrew author, based on the history of his Galician home town of Buczacz. Through these stories, Agnon, himself religiously observant for most of his literary career, takes his readers into the inner world of East European Jewish spiritual and communal life in a way unparalleled in Jewish literature. Reviewing the collection, Sarah Rindner examines Agnon’s appeal to the 21st-century Orthodox reader:
September 18, 2017
How Israeli and American Jews See Past Each Other When It Comes to Anti-Semitism
The best thing Israel can offer in response to anti-Semitism is its existence.
S.Y. Agnon and the Orthodox Jewish Reader
A City and Its Fullness.
Two Soviet Artists’ Attempt to Commemorate the Massacre of Jews at Babi Yar
Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Dmitri Shostakovich.
The Story of Israel’s National Emblem
And its reference to the book of Zechariah.