Boris Fishman

As Israel prepares to withdraw from Gaza, pigment gets political

THE ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL from the Gaza Strip, scheduled to begin tomorrow, has provoked ferocious opposition from those who view it as a concession to Palestinian terrorism. There have been periodic warnings…

RECENTLY I PURCHASED online a used copy of “The Rise of David Levinsky,” Abraham Cahan’s epic 1917 tale of a penniless immigrant’s dubious evolution into a spiritually vacant New York tycoon. It turned out to be infested with notes made…