3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (819+ words) A Jewish American, the story goes, asked an Israeli how many Palestinian prisoners the IDF had raped. None that he knew of, he said. “You IDF soldiers don’t rape Palestinians because Israelis are too racist and disgusted by them to…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (300+ words) President Trump’s recent call for American Jews to mark a special national Shabbat in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence has thrust the Seventh Day into the center of political conversation. To understand Shabbat, however, one must first understand…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (753+ words) All stories are not equal. But we all equally live in stories. Who we are we know by the story we tell ourselves. We spin the points of meaning we meet into a yarn, and the yarn we weave into…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (984+ words) In a real jail-cell interview with another mental health professional, Gustave Gilbert (not portrayed in the film), Goering made clear his mind about what leaders are able to do: Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (183+ words) I have always found this recurring humiliating ritual to be worse than embarrassing. It’s offensive. The core message of Chanukah, then, is one of traditionalism and cultural preservation in the face of menacing and assimilationist forces, both within and without....

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (944+ words) In the heat of a very intense nominating convention in 1964, Barry Goldwater addressed the issue of extremism. Goldwater’s thought challenges us. He said the words because they were true. As short-term expedients, they didn’t work. This misuse of terms is…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (448+ words) Rioters outside Park East synagogue in New York recently chanted genocidal screeds such as “There is only one solution: intifada revolution” and “we don’t want no two states, we want all of it.” As I have argued before, far before…...