Hamas’s Deadly Escalation at the Gaza Border
The goal: to take a hostage and bargain for the end of the embargo.
October 16, 2018
Two Forgotten Poems by a Distinguished Yiddish Poetess
Of refugees and pigeons.
While still a girl, and living in what is now Belarus, Celia Dropkin (1887-1956) wrote poetry in Russian. Only when she came to the U.S. in 1912 did she begin composing verse in Yiddish; she went on to become one of the most important American Yiddish poets of the 20th century. Shoshana Olidort has translated two poems, from a rare edition of Dropkin’s work, that are not available in the two standard collections. Herewith, the opening lines of “The Ballad of the Old Woman with the Basket and the Passengers on a Refugee Ship”:
October 16, 2018
How to Get a Better Deal from Iran
Europeans, Democrats, and pushback on the ground.
By Turning against the Jews, Women’s Studies Admits Its Bankruptcy
Celebrating anti-Israel screeds.
How Medieval Rabbis Influenced Their Christian Contemporaries’ Bible Commentaries
When Rashbam talked Torah with monks.
Two Forgotten Poems by a Distinguished Yiddish Poetess
Of refugees and pigeons.