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A Son of David?
Today on Tablet
Today in Tablet Magazine, Russia historian Richard Pipes reviews a new biography of Leon Trotsky. For all his intellectual brilliance, according to Pipes, the Soviet leader was responsible for some of the U.S.S.R.’s greatest evils and likely would have proved little better than Stalin, to whom he ended up a bête noire. Pipes also dismisses the book’s explicit attempt to cast the man born Lev Bronstein as Jewish; Trotsky was a Jew, Pipes argues, only “genetically speaking.”
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Unmolested
An accused pedophile from ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn has never faced trial, thanks in part to a D.A. who had political reasons not to pursue the case
Voices Raised for Jerusalem
The Zamir Chorale brings its Jewish choral music to Jazz at Lincoln Center in celebration of Yom Yerushalayim
Old Jews Telling More Jokes
The web series ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ goes off-Broadway, with shtick, songs, and a script by writer Daniel Okrent
The Most Perfect Hebrew Bible
The medieval Aleppo Codex was safeguarded for centuries in Syria. The problems started when it arrived in Israel.
