The Multifaceted Risks of Sending Iron Dome Technology to Ukraine
Transferring the missile-defense system to Odessa would be costly, dangerous, and possibly useless.
March 24, 2022
The “Song Searcher” of Jewish Ukraine
A new documentary about the man who captured Ukraine’s Jewish music.
In the 1930s and 40s, Moyshe Beregovsky, a Jewish folklorist and musicologist, traveled through his native Ukraine carrying primitive recording equipment from shtetl to shtetl. The recordings, writes Andrew Silow-Carroll, can be heard “on 1,017 scratchy wax cylinders that for a long time many feared were lost.” A new documentary, Song Searcher, explores the history of these recordings and the culture they helped to preserve.
March 24, 2022
The Growing Tension Between Saudi Arabia and the West
Attempts to placate Iran have soured American and British relations with Riyadh.
The Kindertransport’s True Legacy
Less than a “noble tradition.”
How Judaism Views the Relationship between General Knowledge and Religious Study
Norman Lamm, Torah u-madda, and 21st-century Orthodoxy.
The “Song Searcher” of Jewish Ukraine
A new documentary about the man who captured Ukraine’s Jewish music.