“Bannon and the Trumpian right have discovered what Jews have known for a century: That Zionism is built, in part, on the rejection of Diaspora Jewish identity”
Bannon and the Trumpian right have discovered what Jews have known for a century:...
Monthly Archives: November 2016
“In order for a music for young people to come into being, young people have to have a way to play it”
In order for a music for young people to come into being, young people...
“…the point of the saloon was never the lager. It was the shared institution. Today it often feels as if the only shared spaces are big-box checkout lines and fast-food parking lots”
Neither work nor unions nor “decent homes” seem stable anymore. And older social institutions...
“There are millions of Americans who don’t understand why anyone might worry about the effects of this election”
Most of Mr. Trump’s supporters did not intend to attack our most vulnerable citizens....
“Perhaps the single philosophical consensus of our time is that the key to contentment lies in living fully mentally in the present”
Perhaps the single philosophical consensus of our time is that the key to contentment...
“The economic tragedy of the Millennial generation was written before many of us had even learned to read…”
The economic tragedy of the Millennial generation was written before many of us had...
“There are women who are learned and it is only fitting that they too have a title”
…I still don’t see the objection to female clergy. I am not talking about...
“The predicament of modern C.E.O.s may seem surprising, given their prominence and lavish compensation”
Business professors once talked about “the imperial C.E.O.,” but, increasingly, we’re in the era...
“Hillary Clinton is a strange fit for this moment. She’s a lifelong institutionalist at a time of bitter distrust in institutions…”
Hillary Clinton is a strange fit for this moment. She’s a lifelong institutionalist at...
Differences of a famous midrash about Name, Language, and Clothing
Leviticus Rabbah 32:5 (M. Margoliot ed., Jerusalem 1958, vol. 4, p. 747) lists four...