On My Desk Now: Some Tentative Thoughts on Confronting Antisemitism in America
Last week, I attended an anti-antisemitism training workshop in my neighborhood cosponsored by Malkhut and Jews for Racial and Economic
From Saadi’s Bustan: A Noble Man Suffers With The Victims of a Famine
A Weekly Poem from 13th Century Iran
Of Note: May 11, 2026
A weekly roundup of articles about what’s going on in the world that you might not otherwise be reading.
Sometimes Resisting Means Recommitting Yourself To What You’re Already Doing
Over the last four years that I’ve been reading the statement, however, and especially since the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term, it has become an affirmation that gathering as we do every month is itself a form of resistance that we should not take for granted.
From Saadi’s Bustan: The Hermit Theophilus and the Tyrant
A Weekly Poem from 13th Century Iran
Of Note: May 3, 2026
A weekly roundup of articles about what’s going on in the world that you might not otherwise be reading.
On The Trail of a Tale - Part Four: How I Came to Play a Very Small Role in Saadi’s Travels Through the World
What persuaded me to accept ISIC’s commission, however, was thinking about the generations of Iranian Americans, like my son, who did not read Persian. They deserved, I thought, access to a version of that heritage that would “sing” in their dominant tongue the way the original “sang” in Persian.
