The Iraqi Elections Are Bad News for Iran
The fact that they took place is itself a cause for celebration.
October 19, 2021
The Jewish Small Businessman Who Inspired Colin Powell to Go to College
And taught him some Yiddish.
Colin Powell, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and secretary of state, died yesterday at the age of eighty-four. Raised in the South Bronx, as a young man he worked at a toy store owned by a Russian Jew—an immigrant like Powell’s own parents. In an interview with Andrew Falzon, Powell talks about the experience. (Video, 2 minutes.)
October 19, 2021
Left-Wing Anti-Semitism Is No Worse Than the Right-Wing Variety, but It Is More Likely to Go Unnoticed
Beware bleeding hearts who have no heart for bleeding Jews.
A Jewish Writer Blames Circumcision for His Pain, When He Should Be Blaming the Soviet Union
Gary Shteyngart’s tendentious attack on brit milah.
The Jewish Small Businessman Who Inspired Colin Powell to Go to College
And taught him some Yiddish.
How One of Charles Dickens’s Jewish Readers Set Him Straight about Anti-Semitism
A lesson for Sally Rooney from a children’s book.