Iranians Are Growing Less Afraid of Their Government
While protests continue.
February 25, 2026
S.Y. Agnon’s Forgotten Purim Tale
“Those Who Err All Their Days, and One Man Who Erred Not at All.”
In 1908, a Krakow Jewish newspaper published a short story on the occasion of Purim, which this year will be celebrated on the coming Tuesday. The author, writing under the pseudonym “Mazal Tov,” was an eighteen-year-old named Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes, who would later take a different pen name: S.Y. Agnon. Jeffrey Saks has produced the first-ever English translation of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. It portrays an enraged wife who has just discovered some “erotic poetry” her husband has composed:
February 25, 2026
Why the Likud Rank-and-File Revolted over a Tax Cut
Bad news for Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Just Anti-Zionism” Gets a Federal Court’s Imprimatur
An affront to anti-discrimination law.
S.Y. Agnon’s Forgotten Purim Tale
“Those Who Err All Their Days, and One Man Who Erred Not at All.”
An Ancient Bronze Pan Is “Like a Book of Ethics Buried in the Ground”
“Just balances, just weights shall you have.”