Why American Jews idealize Soviet communism; how a minister’s daughter became the queen of babka; Hitler’s plot against Hollywood; more

Perpetuating the romance of the Bolshevik regime, whose ‘good intentions’ cannot mask the horrors imposed in its name

America’s Best Jewish Baker Isn’t JewishHow minister’s daughter Melissa Weller became the queen of bagels and babka

The Sickening Cost of Lenin’s RevolutionVictor Sebestyen’s engaging ‘Lenin’ and Anne Applebaum’s meticulous ‘Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine’ help explain why a century later the central amorality of the unfulfilled Utopian ideal is still with us

Soviet Ghosts Vacation in SantiagoAn émigré travels in Chile with his wife and daughters