“Any psychologist will tell you that an addiction to victimhood is a roadmap to failure. Palestinian leaders are the drug dealers of victimhood”
Arab-Muslim culture tends to value honor and justice more than action and progress. Because...
Monthly Archives: November 2015
“Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the country, you might still, if you look hard enough, detect tendrils of Southern influence that extend past the Mason-Dixon Line”
Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the...
“…within Mishna Torah, there may be Talmudic laws which have been redefined or reformulated for anti-Qaraite reasons”
Professor Haym Soloveitchik has argued convincingly that the unique arrangement of Hilchos Shabbos in...
“An earplug habit allows a weird sort of synesthesia, where auditory experiences are reconfigured into other, subtler inputs”
An earplug habit allows a weird sort of synesthesia, where auditory experiences are reconfigured...
“The civil-rights revolution, too, can be thought of as a bargain, not simply a victory: the nation has become Southernized just as much as the South has become nationalized”
The South was the country’s aberrant region—wayward, backward, benighted—but it was at last going...
“Scholars have noted that many minhagim began as a response to the Qaraite movement”
Scholars have noted that many minhagim began as a response to the Qaraite movement....
“In general, Trump understands and appreciates that reporters like to be given the time of day”
Getting close to Trump is nothing like the teeth-pulling exercise that it can be...
“The numbers coming to Europe are comparatively small…, but they seem larger because of Europe’s dysfunctional asylum system”
So far, in the fifth year of a Syrian civil war with no end...
“…there is a basic contradiction between sincere, personal prayer and the communal, synagogue setting”
The synagogue’s primary function is what happens in its sanctuary, the space in which...
“Money, from JVP and others, is flowing to the campus for BDS activities, but the amounts, at least those that are visible, appear relatively trivial…”
SJP also gets free assistance, according to the ICC, from the National Campus BDS...