The Cancellation of Palestinian Elections Poses Many Dangers
Even if it is the least dangerous course of action.
April 30, 2021
A Memoir about Teaching English to Hasidim Is an Antidote to Woke Anti-Americanism
Oy! Oy! Oy!: The Teacher Is a Goy.
In 1953, Henry Saltzman graduated from Brooklyn College and took a job teaching secular studies at a ḥasidic elementary school in Brooklyn. Although a Jew from a Yiddish-speaking home, Saltzman was far less pious, and far more Americanized, than his pupils, who belonged to the Satmar branch of Ḥasidism, known for its religious zeal. Saltzman tells the story of this experience in an autobiographical novel, titled Oy! Oy! Oy!: The Teacher Is a Goy. Fred Siegel writes in his review:
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No, America Didn’t Create the Taliban, and It’s Not Responsible for Afghanistan’s Pre-2001 Woes
Downplaying Soviet brutality.
Israel’s Most Recent Political Crisis Points to the Need to Rethink the Role of the Attorney General
The attorney general can’t do both his jobs at once.
A Memoir about Teaching English to Hasidim Is an Antidote to Woke Anti-Americanism
Oy! Oy! Oy!: The Teacher Is a Goy.
In Honor of the 2nd-Century’s Greatest Scholar of Kabbalah, an Essay by the 20th Century’s
Lag ba-Omer and a German Jew’s path to a once-neglected subject.