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I.B. Singer Works Are Incarcerated In Yiddish Texas

You could think of it as a literary scandal. You could also think about it as a tragicomic Cynthia Ozick story. I know it's the result of disagreement among smart people of good will and good intentions. But the end result is that the world has been denied three books and more than a dozen Read More

What I Don’t Know

Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City: "I can't sing at all. I sang once in my life, at an initiation or something–it was terrible ! So I don't know what we're going to do if I ever have to sing. Now I do have better legs than Rudy, so I probably can dance."

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New York’s Beltway Buffoons

The Senators and Representatives whom New York sends to Washington certainly seem to be a powerful bunch, turning up in a bright sheen of makeup on the Sunday-morning TV programs, holding forth on Israeli statehood and the intricacies of First Amendment law. And they sure make news when it comes to attending or not attending Read More