Elie Wiesel’s Homecoming
Back in Sighet, twenty years later.
July 5, 2016
The Concert That Revived the Spirit of Soviet Jewry
Jan Peerce in Moscow.
On July 3, 1956, the celebrated American Jewish tenor Jan Peerce—on a good-will tour of the Soviet Union in the midst of Nikita Khrushchev’s thaw—gave a concert at the Moscow Conservatory, broadcast live on the local radio station. At the suggestion of the Israeli ambassador, Peerce made the last-minute decision to sing a few pieces of Jewish music. James Loeffler describes what ensued:
July 5, 2016
There Are No Shortcuts to a Victory against Hamas
What both left and right get wrong.
The Middle East Quartet’s Report Misses the Point
There is no peace process.
Jerusalem and the Scandal of Jewish Particularity
How odd of God to choose the Jews.
The Concert That Revived the Spirit of Soviet Jewry
Jan Peerce in Moscow.