Is it possible to be evenhanded in discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Israeli-Hamas war? ...
“Red Scare” doesn’t describe a country devoted to free speech and willing to fight for the right of others to express dissenting opinions. ...
“It is clearly not a flawless book, but it is definitely a good read.” ...
The novel brings overdue attention to the fate of the Yiddish language in the Holocaust, seeing it as a victim in its own right. ...
Julius’s story tells us what Jews have made of Abraham. ...
Families, cities and planets are “atomized,” seemingly beyond redemption, in this hellscape of a novel. ...
Should you give books as holiday presents? Of course you should! ...
The spiraling arms race of the Cold War was thus set off by the bomb that German physicists recognized was beyond their reach. ...
“There is much to be charmed by in this novel and even more to learn from it.” ...
The irony of both books is that they replicate the intellectual sins they ascribe to Zionists—one-sided descriptions of Israeli actions, lack of self-criticism, and suffocating certainty. ...
The two million Eastern European Jews who migrated to the United States between 1870 and the outbreak of World War I had been preceded by smaller movements of Jews to America: in colonial times, hundreds of Sephardim who fled Inquisitions; later, tens of thousands of Central European, mostly German, Jews ...
"They were the shining realization of the Jewish American dream, people who could load their plates with all that this country had to offer.” ...