Peace between Israel and the Palestinians Can’t Be Rushed
Develop Palestinian institutions instead.
March 9, 2017
Haman and Mordecai Visit the Shtetl
A Purim story.
As today is the Fast of Esther, which precedes the holiday of Purim (celebrated on Saturday night and Sunday), we offer the short story “Haman and Mordecai,” written between 1905 and 1916 by the great Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem. The story, in the words of the scholar Ruth Wisse, “uses the past to show up the corruption and smallness of the reality of present-day Jewry.” It begins thus (translation by Saul Henkin):
March 9, 2017
The Sisi Doctrine Aligns Egypt with Iran in Syria and against Iran in Yemen
A preference for states.
Haman and Mordecai Visit the Shtetl
A Purim story.
Cheap Propaganda, Masquerading as Art, Comes to a Boutique Hotel in the West Bank
Banksy in Bethlehem.
Israel’s “Family Photographer” and His Heirs
Remembering David Rubinger.
