With the Recent Attack on the London Metro, Jihadist Terror Has Reached a New Stage
Low-hanging fruit.
September 18, 2017
Two Soviet Artists’ Attempt to Commemorate the Massacre of Jews at Babi Yar
Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Dmitri Shostakovich.
After reading the late Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s groundbreaking 1961 poem “Babi Yar”—about the massacre of over 33,000 Jews at the ravine of that name outside Kiev—the composer Dmitri Shostakovich was immediately moved to set it to music. But doing so risked raising the ire of a regime eager to repress memory of the Holocaust. Alex Ryvchin relates:
September 18, 2017
How Israeli and American Jews See Past Each Other When It Comes to Anti-Semitism
The best thing Israel can offer in response to anti-Semitism is its existence.
S.Y. Agnon and the Orthodox Jewish Reader
A City and Its Fullness.
Two Soviet Artists’ Attempt to Commemorate the Massacre of Jews at Babi Yar
Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Dmitri Shostakovich.
The Story of Israel’s National Emblem
And its reference to the book of Zechariah.