China and Russia Have Started a New Cold War. Here’s What the West Can Do to Win It
A briefing on the crisis in Ukraine, and what it means for the world.
March 14, 2022
When Saul Bellow Met the Polish-Jewish Historian Who Influenced His Work
Great Jewish writers in three languages visit the Yiddishists.
Founded in Vilna in 1925, the Jewish Research Institute (known by the Yiddish acronym YIVO) was dedicated to studying, and later to preserving, East European Jewish life and the Yiddish language. It relocated to New York City during World War II, and in the early 1960s several of its original members remained actively involved. In his diary from that decade, Ezekiel Lifschitz—then YIVO’s chief archivist—recorded, inter alia, the visits to the institution of three luminaries of Jewish literature: the Yiddish poet Avraham Sutzkever, the English-language novelist Saul Bellow, and the Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon.
March 14, 2022
Europe Needs Israeli Natural Gas
The eastern Mediterranean must be part of ending dependence on Russian energy.
As al-Qaeda’s “Twentieth Hijacker” Leaves Guantanamo, It’s Time to Ask Tough Questions about the War on Terror
Is it over, or isn’t it?
When Saul Bellow Met the Polish-Jewish Historian Who Influenced His Work
Great Jewish writers in three languages visit the Yiddishists.
American Orthodox Jewry Is Experiencing a Major Geographic Shift
New York City is no longer the sole center of gravity.