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Tuesday, April 4th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Ruth R. Wisse WSJ, Mar. 30, 2023 “Why did “they” so often seek to destroy us? Why some nations and not others? Why the Germans? And why, more exigently by the late 1940s and ’50s, did Arab and Muslim leaders who already ruled over myriad countries adamantly refuse to coexist with the tiniest Jewish state? […]
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Stuart Halpern Tablet, Mar. 31, 2023 ‘A harbinger of hope, a rebuker of the unrighteous, a hearer of stillness amid fractured times, the Seder night’s specter continues to visit, stirring Americans to perceive in his cup their own redemptive possibilities.’ Everyone’s favorite Passover guest is a ghost. In one of the Seder’s most mystical […]
Shalom Carm First Things, April 2023 “… for Jews, the normative memory of slavery is inseparable from the threat of extermination.” Jews throughout the world celebrate the first nights of Passover, which commemorate God’s deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt 3,500 years ago. The focus is the Seder, a meal at which a […]
EDWARD ROTHSTEIN Sapir Journal, Vol. 7, Autumn 2022 In our era of cancellations and topplings, censorious declarations and virtue signaling, recantations and exorcisms, it’s almost possible to feel nostalgic for the days when PoMo reigned supreme. PoMo? Yes, or more formally, postmodernism — a set of suppositions about the world that once inspired the academic priesthood and […]
Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Matt Taibbi, Racket News, Mar. 30, 2023 Years ago, when I first began to have doubts about the Trump-Russia story, I struggled to come up with a word to articulate my suspicions. If the story was wrong, and Trump wasn’t a Russian spy, there wasn’t a word for what was being perpetrated. This was a […]
Monday, April 3rd 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Jacob Siegel, Tablet, Mar. 28, 2023 PROLOGUE: THE INFORMATION WAR In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of […]
Maximiliana Wynne, Modern War Institute, Feb. 3, 2023 If you spend any time on social media, listen to podcasts, or generally pay attention to the news, chances are you’ve heard of ChatGPT. The chatbot, launched by OpenAI in November, can write code, draft business proposals, pass exams, and generate guides on making Molotov cocktails. It […]
Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher,WSJ, Feb. 24, 2023 A new technology bids to transform the human cognitive process as it has not been shaken up since the invention of printing. The technology that printed the Gutenberg Bible in 1455 made abstract human thought communicable generally and rapidly. But new technology today reverses that process. Whereas the […]
Friday, March 31st 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Howard Jacobson Sapir Journal, Vol. 8, Winter 2023 “… it is enough that the covenant enjoins a disinterested seriousness of purpose on the Jewish people and that Jewish artists and writers have found in it a spur for work of the highest order.” The decline and fall of everything is our daily dread, we are […]
Hannah Rubin Tablet, Mar. 20, 2023 “In the traditional world Bais Yaakov inhabits, romantic love is considered sacred and deeply private, so productions eschew it wholesale. Most don’t contain so much as a shidduch date.” A cart wrapped in wood contact paper trundles on stage, pushed by a figure in an overcoat and downy beard. Emblazoned on […]
Jacob Savage Tablet, Feb. 28, 2023 “… fancying ourselves to be high caste members of a beneficent elite, we pretend not to notice that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” is a cudgel used to exclude certain groups of Americans, including Asians and Jews.” Suddenly, everywhere you look, the Jews are disappearing. You feel it like a […]
Ruth R. Wisse Mosaic Magazine, June 16, 2022 “… where Judaism is targeted by political correctness, I am affirming the right of Jews to maintain their Judaism.” From the Hebrew Bible through the Netanyahu family, the survival and flourishing of Jewish civilization has depended on what could be called a series of profiles in […]
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