American novelist's defense raises questions about the imminent flotilla Plus talking to Turkey, and more in the news In which there's far too much confusion  | |  Władysław Szlengel, a forgotten Polish Jewish poet who wrote a verse celebrating Joe Louis' 1938 victory over Max Schmeling, was once a celebrated and searing voice of the Warsaw Ghetto BY DAVID MARGOLICK How is it that books, especially books on historic topics, take forever to finish? One reason is that long after authors have gathered more than enough material, we still research compulsively—ostensibly for that precious but maddeningly elusive last detail, in reality to postpone that moment when we must let go. So, we turn over ever smaller stones. And sometimes, miraculously, beneath them we find gold. More  | U.S. and Israeli policymakers are finally acknowledging that their decades-long push to use the Golan to make peace with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a far-fetched dream More |  | Seduced by lower rents and edgy bars, a former Hasid moves to hipster Brooklyn. But what he gains in nightlife, he loses in camaraderie. What happened to nosy neighbors? More BY SHULEM DEEN | |
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