Western Europe Stands Up for Iran
To the tune of 300 million euros.
July 12, 2018
The American Library Association Rejects Laura Ingalls Wilder While Embracing Anti-Semitic Poetry
“A mongrel smelling blood.”
Last week, the Association for Library Services for Children, a branch of the American Library Association, made headlines when it changed the name of its Laura Ingalls Wilder award for children’s literature—because of the depiction of Native Americans found in the author’s Little House on the Prairie books. Yet, writes Emily Schneider, this newfound sensitivity to prejudice seems not to apply to anti-Semitism:
July 12, 2018
Ireland’s Radical Israel-Boycott Bill Could Have Devastating Consequences—for Ireland
It runs afoul of U.S. anti-BDS laws.
Maimonides, the Temple, and Isaac Newton
Judaism and the “last of the magicians.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Trip to Israel
A land where “loving fellow Jews has a mystical significance.”
The American Library Association Rejects Laura Ingalls Wilder While Embracing Anti-Semitic Poetry
“A mongrel smelling blood.”