Yaakov Schwartz is The Times of Israel s deputy Jewish World editor.
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, in his Miami Beach apartment, October 10, 1978. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
In 2014, author and literary scholar David Stormberg took his first trip to the archives at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, in search of material by the late Yiddish-language Jewish-American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. He hit the motherlode.
“I was looking for Bashevis Singer’s essays because I was interested in his non-fiction and worldview writing on literature, on Judaism and Yiddish, and also his personal philosophy,” Stromberg told The Times of Israel in a recent telephone interview from his home in Jerusalem. “What I didn’t expect to find, but what I did find, is that he’d already translated enough material for an entire book.”
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Tel Aviv s Rabin Square to become construction site
Work will begin on the light rail Green Line underground station in June in the city s large municipal square.
Next month work will begin on the Tel Aviv light rail Green Line and from June 2021 Rabin Square will become a construction site. NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd. which is supervising the work, says that 40% of Rabin Square will be used for storing construction and engineering equipment while the underground station beneath the square is being built.
There will be two entrances to the underground station. The first entrance will be in the west near the ecological pool and the second in the east at the corner of Ibn Gbriol and David Hamelekh Streets. Various sections of Ibn Gbriol Street will be narrowed during the engineering works.
JNS.org - An egregious lie has been making the rounds lately. It is a timeworn smear against the Jewish people.
In omitting to mention this internationally-agreed mandate for Jews in their historical homeland, Obama is legitimizing the lie that the movement for a Jewish homeland in Judea and Samaria had no legal international legitimacy but was simply a colonial invasion. An evil plot by the imperialist powers to humiliate Islam.
The Jews maintained a continual presence throughout the 2,000 years during which most were exiled from the land. If more did not come, it was because the economic conditions simply made it impractical. In Medieval Spain, Yehuda Halevy wrote, “My heart is in the East, but I am at the end of the West.” And great Jewish leaders, such as Nachmanides and Maimonides, tried to settle there. Isaac Luria and the Kabbalists made Safed the spiritual capital of Judaism in the sixteenth century. Many of the important Hassidic leaders of Eastern Europe moved already