Analysis
Wednesday, July 17th 2024
David Mamet Jewish Journal, July 3, 2024 “The Diaspora meme; “I’m Jewish, but I’m not that Jewish,” has, again, been corrected by a mob’s screaming, “Yes. You are.”” Marilyn Monroe was one of the screen’s great clowns. Her schtick, though tagged as sexual or provocative was actually an affectionate send-up of sexuality. Woody’s screen […]
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Tuesday, March 12th 2024
David Harsanyi The Federalist, Feb. 29, 2024 “Biden can afford to ignore the concerns of American Jews who care about this issue, because it won’t matter enough in states like New York, California, and Florida, where the outcomes are foretold. The chance that nominally pro-Israel Democrats would criticize the president is slim.” The day […]
Monday, March 11th 2024 / Sunday, March 10th 2024
Meir Soloveitchik National Review, Feb. 22, 2024 “After two millennia of persecution experienced by Jews at the hands of others, it remains a wonder that a multitude of Americans — almost certainly many millions — ardently embrace their own version of Disraeli’s dictum, that God will treat America as it treats the Jews.” Some […]
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Tuesday, June 20th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
INCREASING TIES WATCH: The Cowardice and Failure of Jewish Leadership: Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, June 15, 2023 –– “Top Story” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser, Ep. 99. Why are American Jews so badly led? Why is it that so much of organized Jewish life is now devoted to causes that […]
Tuesday, June 20th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Andrew Pessin Akron Jewish News, June 7, 2023 “… we find many Jews who embrace a deracinated version of tikkun olam that constitutes the entirety of their Jewish identity. From there, it’s a short step to saying, “As a Jew I must fight for Palestinian rights and destroy the Jewish state.” These Jews are somehow blind to […]
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 […]
SHABBAT READING Understanding Sacrifice: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, Tzav 5776, 5783 — One of the most difficult elements of the Torah and the way of life it prescribes is the phenomenon of animal sacrifices – for obvious reasons. First, Jews and Judaism have survived without them for almost two thousand years. […]
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