Somewhere in Heaven, Isaac Bashevis Singer must be smiling, or cursing. For years, he wanted to compile and publish a book of his essays. Thank God it finally happened — in my lifetime, at least. “Old Truths and New Cliches” is a tremendous gift to the Jewish world. Singer is known first and foremost — and, in some minds, exclusively — as a storyteller. An incredibly great storyteller. But he was also a true intellectual whose essays on literature, the Yiddish language and the Jewish enterprise are treasures that we can now digest and enjoy. Get The Jewish Chronicle Weekly...