Culture

Yesterday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called on Israel to freeze all settlement building in the West Bank. Today, the BBC takes an in-depth look at Israeli settlements: Clearly, settlements are not the only stumbling block to peace between Israelis and Palestinians but even the United States, Israel’s greatest ally, has been critical of settlements for […]

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of famed Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, a new translation has been published of “Blundzhende Shtern,” Aleichem’s novel about two lovers in the Yiddish theater. Playwright Tony Kushner has written the introduction.  NPR’s Robert Siegel has a piece about the man behind “Fiddler on the Roof,” including an interview […]