The U.S. Has Drawn a Red Line in Iran. Now It Must Uphold It
The danger of repeating Barack Obama’s mistake.
January 14, 2026
The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, Now in English
The creation of “one of the weirdest journalists ever to live in Galicia.”
In the late 19th century, detective fiction was as popular as it is today—including among East European Jews, who eagerly consumed Hebrew and Yiddish translations of French and English mystery novels. Then they met Max Spitzkopf. Eddy Portnoy writes:
January 14, 2026
American Jewry, Not Israel, Lost an Information War
The message: “we will not perish.”
The Anti-Israel Movement Comes for the Sciences
BDS stands in the way of progress.
The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, Now in English
The creation of “one of the weirdest journalists ever to live in Galicia.”
The Literary and Intellectual World of Yemenite Jewry
The poet-rabbi Zechariah al-Dhahiri.