France’s Political Upheaval and What It Portends for the Jews
And what the Jews portend for France.
April 14, 2017
S.Y. Agnon’s Passover Horror Story
A Tom Thumb rabbi and a blood libel.
In “The Tale of Rabbi Gadiel,” the Nobel-Prize-winning Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon, employing his signature pseudo-folktale style, draws on the books of Jonah and Esther, kabbalistic lore, and the legends of Elijah the Prophet to tell the story of a Tom Thumb-like rabbi who saves the Jews of his town from a blood libel. Herewith, Marcela Sulak’s reading of an excerpt of the story, translated by Evelyn Abel. (Audio, 8 minutes.)
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The New Hamas Charter Is About West Bank Politics, Not Ideology
And Gaza rejects it.
The Terrorist Attack in Sweden Suggests a Motive Other than “Retaliation”
Proving what we knew all along.
S.Y. Agnon’s Passover Horror Story
A Tom Thumb rabbi and a blood libel.
George Eliot’s Literary Mirror for Our Times
Daniel Deronda and the post-traditional world.