A memoir of Gershom Scholem's friendship with Walter Benjamin reveals that the rivalry inherent in intellectual friendship may produce depths of insight to which later readers should pay attention.

The murder by a depraved anti-Israel lunatic of a pair of Israeli Embassy staffers about to be engaged is the latest in a series of horrific attacks against Jews dating to well before 2018, when the current wave of antisemitic killings is supposed to have begun. At this point, Jews and their allies should have no doubt about the source of these attacks. They are the outcome of the new antisemitism: peoplehood antisemitism.

Some books you have to wait to read until you're grown, if you want to get what they're really about. That's the case with Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the basis for the hit movie My Fair Lady, is a funny play with a dark underbelly.