How Israel Helps Uphold the U.S.-Backed Liberal International Order
The moral blindness of condemning Jerusalem for its relations with Moscow.
October 16, 2019
The Head of an Ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva and His Surprisingly Good Pseudonymous Novel
The Idiom and the Oddity.
Set in New York in the late 1950s, The Idiom and the Oddity (2017) tells the story of a young man who decides to revolt against his parents’ drift away from Jewish tradition and observance, leaves his family home in suburban Long Island for the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn where he grew up, and eventually finds himself studying in a rabbinical seminary in upstate New York. While the novel was written under the pseudonym Sam Benito, Henry Abramson recognizes the author as a certain prominent ḥaredi rabbi, and the story as highly autobiographical. Abramson does not reveal the author’s identity, but argues that the work is a rich, if imperfect, coming-of-age tale:
October 16, 2019
In the Face of Anti-Semitism, Angela Merkel Says Much and Does Little
Promising to fight anti-Semitism while shielding Hizballah.
How Dwight Eisenhower Came to the Jews’ Aid after the Holocaust
Helping to memorialize the Shoah and to protect survivors.
The Head of an Ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva and His Surprisingly Good Pseudonymous Novel
The Idiom and the Oddity.
The Ancient Greeks and Romans, but Not the Jews, Believed in Mythical Creatures
Dissecting a tendentious new-atheist attack on the Hebrew Bible.