The Folly of Lifting Sanctions on the Deadliest Arm of the Iranian Regime
A move that would “endanger American lives.”
April 12, 2022
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Vision of Radical Evil, and of Art That Transcends Politics
There’s more to the Yiddish writer than “combining shtetls, demons, and sex in a small bowl, mixed well.”
To Dara Horn, Isaac Bashevis Singer lost most of his literary luster when he began to cultivate “a public persona as a wide-eyed innocent from a lost world” and his work fell into “self-derivative patterns in which the recipe involved combining shtetls, demons, and sex in a small bowl, mixed well.” Horn does not, however, deny Singer’s artistic and imaginative talents, or that substantive ideas lie behind his work:
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Israel’s Government Might Not Collapse, but Israelis Will Still Pay the Price of Paralysis
Once again, the people’s business won’t get done.
Jewish Organizations Must Start Saying “No” to Oligarchs’ Money
They exist to serve their communities, not the individuals who fund them.
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Vision of Radical Evil, and of Art That Transcends Politics
There’s more to the Yiddish writer than “combining shtetls, demons, and sex in a small bowl, mixed well.”
Orthodox Judaism Responds to the Challenge Posed by Leo Strauss
Why stop at saying that belief is just as rational as unbelief?