June 23, 2006

The New York Times Book Review’s recent survey of the “the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years” produced a number of interesting findings. The first was that, despite Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” winning the prize, there were hardly any books by women among the multiple vote-getters. The second was that […]

Suddenly, it’s open season on diaspora Jews. Jewish leaders had hardly recovered from a recent speech by Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua dismissing them as irrelevant when they learned that Israel’s Chief Rabbinate had put new hurdles in front of conversions performed by many American rabbis. Now, this week comes word that Israel’s president, Moshe […]