Mahmoud Abbas Condemns Hamas While It’s Down
The jihadists are “sons of dogs,” but Americans’ “fathers should be cursed.”
April 25, 2025
Norman Manea: Romania’s Great Jewish Novelist
Jewishness has been the hinge of his fiction, if not the whole door.
Wednesday’s newsletter cited Joseph Epstein’s view of that vexing and perennial question of what makes a work of literature Jewish, and his conclusion that Marcel Proust’s fiction meets the standard. But while no one can ask Proust what he thinks, it’s not necessary to ask the Romanian Jewish writer Norman Manea—whose most recent novel was recently published in English translation—since he has already expressed his opinion. Benjamin Balint writes:
April 25, 2025
With Help from Russia, Iran Has Expanded Its Terror Network into Northwest Africa
Washington should support Morocco in its fight with the Polisario Front.
A Visit to the Remaining Jews of Ethiopia
In Israel, Ethiopians count for a disproportionately high number of war deaths.
Norman Manea: Romania’s Great Jewish Novelist
Jewishness has been the hinge of his fiction, if not the whole door.
How Jews Helped Shape Religious Freedom in America
And how America shaped Revolutionary Jewish communities.
