North American curricula offer, at best, a simplistic, one-sided and unhelpful narrative, writes the CEO of an organization that looks at educational compliance.
Demand for a Yiddish translation of the Koran has never been particularly high, but that didn’t discourage Solomon Blumgarten, penname Yehoash. Blumgarten (1872-1927), a Lithuanian-born New Yorker, translated parts of the Islamic text into Yiddish after studying it during a 1914 trip to Palestine. It didn’t exactly become a bestseller. These days, Yiddish is […]