An India-Middle East Corridor Can Be a Counterweight to Both Iran and China
Building a new American strategy on Israel’s diplomatic breakthroughs.
October 6, 2023
A Brazilian Jewish Writer’s Return to Jewishness in the Wake of the Yom Kippur War
Clarice Lispector, anti-Semitism, and Macabéa.
Today widely regarded as Brazil’s greatest female author, Clarice Lispector was born Chaya Pinkhasova Lispektor in 1920 in the Ukrainian shtetl of Chechelnik. Her family brought her to the Brazilian city of Recife only two years later. In 1973, after the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, the Rio de Janeiro paper that employed her as a columnist fired her—along with its other Jewish journalists. Julia Kornberg writes:
October 6, 2023
The Jordanian Physician Who Helped the Magen David Adom Get a Seat at the Table
Ending 76 years of the Red Cross’s anti-Jewish prejudice.
The Italian Rabbi Who Dismissed Ecclesiastes as Heretical, and Later Recanted
Samuel David Luzzatto’s commentary.
A Brazilian Jewish Writer’s Return to Jewishness in the Wake of the Yom Kippur War
Clarice Lispector, anti-Semitism, and Macabéa.
Coming from Messianism to Judaism in Show Low, Arizona
The story of a small congregation of converts.