A biography examines the life of ghetto insurgent and Zionist bard Abba Kovner
| 7:00 AM Dec 8, 2009
The story of Abba Kovner is one that—as we say about the exodus from Egypt on Passover—every Jew has a duty to learn and to tell. Because it is a Holocaust story, however, it cannot be a tale of rescue and salvation, as the exodus was. For the Jews of the Vilna ghetto, God’s “mighty ...
Pluralists, pragmatists, and polemicists
| 7:00 AM Nov 23, 2009
A parodist noted a few years ago that if you would like to write your very own Thomas Friedman op-ed column, you have three choices for the “little-known Middle East authority” from whom you must quote at least once: Stephen P. Cohen, Stephen P. Cohen, or Stephen P. Cohen. (This was presumably not a reference ...
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