Palestinian Unification Brings No Benefits to Israel Unless It Involves Disarmament
Both Hamas and Fatah need to start complying with the Oslo Accords.
October 17, 2017
The Very Un-American Jewish Humor of S.Y. Abramovitsh
Trapped in a cycle of naïveté and doom.
Examining the work of S.Y. Abramovitsh (1836-1917), the founding father of modern Yiddish literature, Dara Horn notes that, while comedy was the genre that came most naturally to him, his humor was far darker than the wisecracking that most 21st-century Jews associate with Yiddish. Abramovitsh, who wrote under the pseudonym Mendele Mokher Sforim (Mendele the Book Peddler), used his fiction to send up both shtetl Jews and anti-Semites:
October 17, 2017
How to Fix the Iran Deal
Missiles, penalties, and sunsets.
Tensions between the U.S. and Turkey Involve Far More than Erdogan’s Behavior
An alliance that has lost its purpose.
Archaeologists Uncovered a Buried Part of the Western Wall to Find an Ancient Roman Theater
Understanding post-destruction Jerusalem.
The Very Un-American Jewish Humor of S.Y. Abramovitsh
Trapped in a cycle of naïveté and doom.