Why the King of Jordan’s Visit to Washington Matters—to Israel and to the U.S.
Beset by challenges, Amman needs the assistance of its allies.
July 20, 2021
One Great Hebrew Writer Memorializes Another
Y.H. Brenner “sanctified his life through his death and his death through his life.”
One of the most gifted Hebrew novelists of the beginning of the last century—and perhaps the most unsettling—Yosef Ḥayyim Brenner brought new life to the literary scene in the Land of Israel when he settled there in 1909. His murder during the 1921 Arab riots in Jaffa brought an abrupt end to his career. Forty years later, his friend and one of his few peers, the novelist S.Y. Agnon, saw fit to eulogize him in an Israeli journal. Jeffrey Saks offers a translation of Agnon’s reminiscence, which concludes with a talmudic citation:
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The “Malaysian Troll Army” Shows How Hamas Conducts War on Social Media
Not only cyberbullying but sophisticated hacking.
The British Government Has Condemned a Two-Year-Old Jewish Girl to Death. Her Parents Are Fighting Back
The courts are certain that keeping her alive isn’t in her best interest.
One Great Hebrew Writer Memorializes Another
Y.H. Brenner “sanctified his life through his death and his death through his life.”
How Mahjong Helped Jews Become Americans
From Shanghai to the Borscht Belt.