How Long Will U.S. Taxpayers Continue to Fund Palestinian Terrorism?
The Taylor Force Act and the PA’s ideology.
November 15, 2016
S. Y. Agnon’s Ironic View of Zionism’s Future and the Jewish Past
An author who upended his own parables.
Reviewing recently published translations of fiction by S.Y. Agnon (1888-1970)—the only Hebrew writer to have won a Nobel Prize for literature—Adam Kirsch examines this pious yet modernist author’s oeuvre and its literary treatment of Zionism, Judaism, and Jewish history. To illustrate the novelist’s sometimes confounding use of parable, Kirsch interprets an episode from Only Yesterday, the work that “is considered [Agnon’s] masterpiece and has a claim to being the Great Israeli Novel.”
November 15, 2016
Israel and Egypt Improve Their Economic Ties
Not just security.
The Left Splits over How Much of Israel to Boycott
In the New York Review of Books, even the Zionists want to boycott Jerusalem.
S. Y. Agnon’s Ironic View of Zionism’s Future and the Jewish Past
An author who upended his own parables.
Azariah de’ Rossi, the Italian Rabbi Who Brought Renaissance Humanism to Jewish History
A controversial figure.