Two Signs the Palestinian Issue Is Rapidly Losing Its Importance to World Politics
And why that’s good news for the Palestinian people.
December 16, 2021
Stephen Sondheim Wasn’t Very Interested in His Jewishness. But It Shaped Him Nonetheless
His life story “is a testament to how everything was and is possible in America.”
On November 26, Stephen Sondheim, one of Broadway’s most celebrated composers and librettists, died at the age of ninety-one—by coincidence, just as a Hollywood has released a new adaptation of West Side Story, the most famous of his plays. Sondheim, John Podhoretz notes, was part of a generation of Jews that made enormous contributions to American literature and arts; and indeed he finds parallels between Sondheim’s work and that of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. But this leads Podhoretz to the obvious question:
December 16, 2021
Suicide Notes Provide a Window into Terrorists’ Motivations
Al-Aqsa, family problems, and a desire for martyrdom.
France and the U.S. Are Propping Up Hizballah’s Rule in Lebanon
Economic duress notwithstanding, Beirut won’t come to a natural-gas agreement with Jerusalem.
Stephen Sondheim Wasn’t Very Interested in His Jewishness. But It Shaped Him Nonetheless
His life story “is a testament to how everything was and is possible in America.”
Israeli Police Discover 2,000-Year-Old Twice-Looted Artifacts in the Trunk of a Car
Rare bronze objects from the time of the Bar Kokhba revolt.