To Deter Iran, America Should Give Israel a Big Bomb
The ayatollahs may doubt whether the U.S. would use it; they won’t have any trouble believing that the Israelis will.
July 26, 2021
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Visit to Texas, and His Afterlife in Austin
“He told me, looking over his shoulder though no one was eavesdropping, that he liked Reagan.”
While the majority of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s stories and novels take place in Warsaw, Manhattan, or the various shtetls surrounding Lublin, his personal archive has been preserved for posterity in Austin at the University of Texas. Robert King—Mississippi-born Gentile, linguistics professor, Yiddish expert, and sometime Mosaic contributor—tells the story of how he befriended the writer, and, after his death, raised the funds for the University of Texas to acquire the collection:
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Those Endorsing the Replacement of the Traditional Family Show Little Concern for the Fate of Children
Polyamory, throuples, communes—and children as an afterthought.
Meet the Orthodox Mother of Twelve Who Ran the Office of an Israeli President
She hopes one day to represent Ḥaredim in the Knesset.
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Visit to Texas, and His Afterlife in Austin
“He told me, looking over his shoulder though no one was eavesdropping, that he liked Reagan.”
Plundered Jewish Documents, Long Thought Lost, Surface in New York City
Ancestry records, memorial books, and more.