Please read the interview that Nir Hasson did with Assaf David in Haaretz. It's really important www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“We spoke about bread, the most urgent necessity of our lives.”

Shojaa Al-Safadi writes about the newly named Refugee Street in this creative nonfiction piece in our July issue, translated by Ibtisam Barakat.

worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/july/wi...

For MSNBC Opinion, I wrote about Brown’s agreement with the Trump admin and how promoting the idea that “DEI” is bad for Jews and also simultaneously that only Jews are entitled to it is totally counter to promoting understanding of Jewishness/fighting antisemitism

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The Big Ten Rises UpAgainst Trump newrepublic.com/article/1983... via @newrepublic.com

Martin Shaw, the author of “What is Genocide?” and “The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges After Gaza” reflects on this moment in the global debate newlinesmag.com/argument/the...

My review essay of Beyond the Land is published at @worldlittoday.bsky.social.

The number of “cides” in Gaza is growing, but beyond its destruction of schools, hospitals, farmland and entire family lineages, Israel is also engaging in historicide — the destruction of history itself — argues @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Thanks for a great conference!

Horrific news. IU is one of the best public universities.

Poetry is ubiquitous in Iran: It is on tombstones, skin, walls, cars, shirts and social media bios. Learning the story of Persian letters helps us better understand Iran as it is today and how it views itself, the world, and its future, writes Muhammad Ali Mojaradi

newlinesmag.com/essays/the-k...

Shachar Pinsker offers reflections following Gali Drucker Bar-Am, I Am Your Dust: Representations of the Israeli Experience in Yiddish Prose, 1948-1967, translated by Natalie Melzer.

ingeveb.org/articles/ref...

My reflections on Yiddish in Palestine/Israel following a recent book by Gali Drucker Bar-Am are published in a new essay @ingeveb.bsky.social ingeveb.org/articles/ref...

Looking forward to this lsa.umich.edu/judaic/news-...

I fear only demons - Sami Michael

The Iraqi-born Israeli author, who died in April 2024 aged 97, first caught the attention of Israel’s Hebrew-reading public with his 1974 debut novel, “All Men Are Equal — But Some Are More.”

On Monday, April 15, 6pm, I will give the Fordham-NYPL Lecture: “When Yiddish Was Young in Israel,” presenting materials from my new research. I hope to see you at Fordham Lincoln Center (140 West 62nd Street). For more details and to register (in-person and online), see here: tinyurl.com/b256yt34