Analysis
Tuesday, December 20th 2022
Asaf Romirowsky and Alex Joffe Tablet, Nov. 4, 2022 “Building bridges, while perhaps a laudable mission for humanitarian organizations, is not always compatible with the pursuit of scholarly truth.” Few trends in academia are more depressing than the continued domination of Middle Eastern studies departments by postcolonial professors whose shtick involves recycling cliched attacks on […]
Monday, December 19th 2022
Curt Leviant Tablet, Dec. 16, 2020 “What Jew didn’t know his family name? What Jew can’t read from the siddur. What Jew has the gruff look of a goy?” Early one morning, one snowless winter’s day, end November, just before Hanukkah, a solidly built man—he seemed to be in his mid-30s—appeared in […]
Don Feder Washington Times, Dec. 10, 2022 “The two sides seem remarkably similar to those in the Hanukkah story. In the culture war, one side believes in an evolving moral code shaped by convenience and popular opinion. The other subscribes to a code that’s both universal and eternal.” Hanukkah may be the most […]
Philologos Mosaic Magazine, Nov. 30, 2021 “Sacks, a chief rabbi who was knighted and awarded a peerage by the British Crown, found this stanza embarrassing. His solution was not very different from Ma’oz Tsur’s: to publish and conceal simultaneously.” How many stanzas of the candle-lighting song Ma’oz Tsur Y’shu’ati are you familiar with? If you’re like […]
Prof. Eyal Regev The Torah.com, Dec. 10, 2017 “Although almost half of the book describes the military conflicts between the Judah’s troops and the Seleucids, its emphasis is on the religious piety of Judah and his followers.” Chanukah has a special history. Early Jewish sources from the second century B.C.E. – 1 Maccabees, […]
Friday, December 16th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Saul Austerlitz PBS, Dec. 13, 2022 “Bellow was a cultural conservative at heart, decrying what he saw as the excesses of a society spiraling out of control, but his critique is laced with deep sympathy for the rejects and failures of American life.” It is only too easy to see Saul Bellow as one […]
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Matti Friedman Tablet, May 4, 2022 “So “Lover Lover Lover” is a war song. It’s not clear what “lover” he’s referring to in the chorus, which simply intones that word seven times and implores, “come back to me.” But if we understand the song as a kind of prayer, maybe the word appears […]
Joanne Kaufman WSJ, Dec. 7, 2022 ““I’ll Have What She’s Having” bears no resemblance whatsoever to the over-stuffed sandwiches that are the deli’s stock in trade. The exhibit is lean and compact, free of kitsch and light on schmaltzy nostalgia.” “Tell me what you eat,” the 18th-century French lawyer and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously said, […]
Stav Ziv Forward, Dec. 15, 2022 “… whether they’re following their own personal observance or taking those of their audience into account, the groups have religious reasons to limit their membership. Also business reasons.” Plenty has changed about holiday a cappella videos since “Candlelight” exploded on YouTube over a decade ago like a 21st-century Hanukkah […]
Thursday, December 15th 2022 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
Tom Basile The Washington Times, Dec. 9, 2022 “The credibility of the laptop and anyone who touched it needed to be destroyed quickly or the Biden basement campaign would fail.” Elon Musk is pulling back the curtain on one of the most salacious political maneuvers in American history that polling suggests could have affected […]
Byron York Washington Examiner, Dec. 12, 2022 “… a number of wealthy Biden supporters are planning an assault against the investigators and witnesses in the Hunter Biden investigation.” THE COMING WAR OVER HUNTER BIDEN. Republican lawmakers will take control of The House of Representatives on Jan. 3. That means that, among many other things, they will […]
Jim Geraghty National Review, Aug. 19, 2022 “The veracity of the emails does not depend upon what you think of the New York Post. They nailed the story.” On the menu today: President Biden and China’s Xi Jinping are expected to have their first in-person meeting in Indonesia this November, leading some to argue that […]
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