Britain Shouldn’t Drop Its Alliance with Saudi Arabia
But it also shouldn’t stop pushing behind the scenes for reforms.
January 3, 2019
A New Film Tells the Story of the Heroic Poet-Turned-Guerrilla Avraham Sutzkever
Black Honey.
Born in a Russian shtetl in 1913, the great Yiddish poet Avraham Sutzkever was among the thousands of Jews confined to the Vilna ghetto by the Nazis in 1941. There he was involved in a massive effort to preserve Jewish books and documents, as well as in the underground resistance; in 1943 he escaped to the forests to join the partisans. After the war he emigrated to Israel, via the Soviet Union, and continued to write poetry until his death in 2010 while devoting enormous energy to preserving Yiddish literary culture. The recent documentary film Black Honey tells his life story. In her review, Dara Horn describes two of its most poignant moments:
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When the Evidence Fails, the “New York Times” Libels Israel by Insinuation
Even ten journalists can’t find a nonexistent war crime.
A New Film Tells the Story of the Heroic Poet-Turned-Guerrilla Avraham Sutzkever
Black Honey.
A Christian Contemplates the Meaning of Jewish Chosenness for Non-Jews
Particularism, universalism, and the circumcision of Jesus.
The Jewish Farming Community of Beersheba, Kansas
It didn’t go as planned, but it did help new immigrants.