Israel’s New Government Flies in the Face of the Country’s Western Critics
And can teach Americans a lesson about diversity.
June 17, 2021
Yiddish Is a Language That Can’t Be Disconnected from Judaism
Not just for kvetching.
Commenting on the controversies that emerged when the popular language-learning app Duolingo initiated its Yiddish course, Meir Soloveichik objects to those who see the tongue as way to express a Jewish identity at a safe distance from both the Jewish religion and the Jewish state. He writes:
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Like Many Who Came Before Them, Today’s Jewish Anti-Zionists Want to Rid Judaism of Its Particularity
The un-Jews and their forebears.
The Leader of France’s Hard Left Is an Anti-Semite of the Old Kind
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s statements about Jews would make Jeremy Corbyn blush.
The Woman Who Gave the Kibbutzim Their Junkyard Kindergartens
Malka Haas’s free-range kids.
Yiddish Is a Language That Can’t Be Disconnected from Judaism
Not just for kvetching.