August 2017
- A glimpse of the Jewish left in 1920s PalestineBoom and Chains by Hanan Ayalti, translated by Adi Mahalel Wayne State University Press, 312 pages, $34.99 Boom and Chains, by the Yiddish writer Hanan Ayalti, is a sweeping, morally urgent novel of Mandate-era Palestine that marries socialist ambition, Zionist dreams and the lived terrain of Arab dispossession. First serialized in Warsaw in 1940... […]
- 2 more deceased hostages, including only woman, returned to Israel as Hamas says it has freed all it can(JTA) — Hamas returned the bodies of two more hostages late Wednesday and said it had released all of the remains it is able to access, leaving 19 people unaccounted for. The two hostages returned Wednesday, DNA analysis showed, were Muhammad Al-Atarash and Inbar Hayman. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum announced in December 2023... […]