…as VHS technology became widely available in the mid-1980s, synagogues started screening “Tisha be-Av videos” throughout the afternoon. These are professionally-produced programs […]
These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so […]
Anderson explains the use of language and symbols that help reinforce communal identity and unity. Online Jewish communities also provide these types […]
Archaeological evidence of beer-making is often hard to come by because most of the tools used in beer production — such as […]
The most successful ownage finds hubristic targets, people who think they know more than they do. But ownage is itself a hubristic […]
Leaks are most often an outsider’s tool, and they look different from a vantage of power. As a candidate, Trump mentioned WikiLeaks […]
You do not hear “win-win” much lately. One of the loudest political messages of the past year, across the entire ideological spectrum, […]
Zionism — and, here, I mean especially the muscular Zionism of the Six-Day War, the Zionism of power and permanence, with its […]
“Silencing critics” is the beating heart of today’s “winning.” This is largely because your critics are not, in fact, competing with you; […]
Trump may operate a twenty-first-century Twitter machine, but he is still a frontier-era drummer peddling snake oil, juniper tar, and Dr. Tabler’s […]
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