Hamantaschen—a daughter-in-law’s inheritance; the future of French Jewry; Obama, Samantha Power, and lies about Syria; a Yiddish Purim shpil;

When my mother-in-law died, the job of making cookies for Purim fell to me

Meyer HabibBibi’s man in Paris may be the best friend that French Jews have. But is he a model for the future or a herald of the end?

‘Ambassador Samantha Power Lied to My Face About Syria,’ by Kassem EidA letter from a survivor of Assad’s chemical attacks about his encounter with Obama’s chief diplomat at the United Nations

A Yiddish Purim Shpil in Tel AvivRokhl’s Golden City: Eritrean detainees read Isaac Bashevis Singer, and the mother tongue meets the mother-land