Salman Rushdie and the Western Apologists for Those Who Wish Him Dead
Jimmy Carter and Team To Be Sure.
August 17, 2022
The American Virtuosos Breathing Life into Old-Fashioned Cantorial Music
A revival or a dying gasp?
During the last 50 years, the elaborate, operatic style of early 20th-century cantors lost much of its popularity in favor of folksier or pop-inflected tunes, better suited to participatory singing. Yet some young ḥasidic ḥazanim have been keeping the art alive—although whether their activities constitute a revival or, as one cantor put it, “a dying gasp” remains to be seen. Jon Kalish reports. (Audio, 4 minutes. A full text and additional musical recordings are available at the link below.)
August 17, 2022
Israel Studies Isn’t Immune from the Academy’s Anti-Israel Mania
Instead of serving as a bulwark against (or at least a shelter from) vulgar ignorance, it is becoming an adjunct to it.
God, Mother of Israel
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?”
When Sigmund Freud Sent Theodor Herzl Fan Mail
“A sign of my appreciation towards . . . the poet and fighter for our people’s human rights.”
The American Virtuosos Breathing Life into Old-Fashioned Cantorial Music
A revival or a dying gasp?