The Palestinian Authority Is Part of the Problem, Not the Solution
Is even chaos a lesser evil?
January 31, 2023
The Warning behind Philip Roth’s Joking
Rereading Portnoy’s Complaint now that the Golden Age of American Jewry is over.
When she first encountered Portnoy’s Complaint being read aloud by a friend, Ruth R. Wisse remembers that she and others present “were laughing so hard that we begged him to stop so that we could catch our breath.” Half a century later, Philip Roth’s most famous—and most notorious—novel seems less fresh, less shocking, and less funny. She writes:
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By Keeping Iran in Check, Israel Helps the U.S., and Ukraine
A daring drone strike, West Bank terror, and Russia’s war.
The Warning behind Philip Roth’s Joking
Rereading Portnoy’s Complaint now that the Golden Age of American Jewry is over.
In a Lost Lecture, a Modern Sage Explains Why Halakhah Is the Redemptive Antithesis of Ritual
“No one achieves happiness or bliss when paying his taxes.”
Remembering the Holocaust and Forgetting the Jews
Trivialization and worse.