A Terrorist Plunges a Knife into the Israeli-Palestinian Economic Symbiosis
What Tuesday’s murderous attack portends.
November 18, 2022
The Great Jewish Joke at the Heart of James Joyce’s Masterpiece, and Its Serious Meaning
Homeric Bloom is not; but a hero for our time he is.
While James Joyce’s Ulysses may be the archetypal work of Irish literature, its main character, Leopold Bloom, is identifiably a Jew. Howard Jacobson examines why this great modernist author would choose a Jew as the hero of a novel loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey and set in Dublin:
November 18, 2022
The U.S. Must Take Action to Prevent Iran from Getting Nuclear Weapons
Sanctions, missile defense, and preparation for an attack.
The Great Jewish Joke at the Heart of James Joyce’s Masterpiece, and Its Serious Meaning
Homeric Bloom is not; but a hero for our time he is.
The BBC’s Jewish Problem Isn’t Going Away
It broadcasts Arabic folksongs calling for the murder of Jews, while refusing to acknowledge its libelous mistakes.
How a Catholic University Became the Repository of the Jewish History of the Bronx
The borough was once 49-percent Jewish.