“…metaphors that associate sex with eating, sexual partners with food, and/or sexual desire with hunger/appetite are not unique to rabbinic Judaism”
One detail that stands out in this particular attempt to bring the Torah of...
“If the idea is that black people cannot solve their problems short of white people developing an exquisite sensitivity to how privileged they are, then we in the black community are being designated as disabled poster children”
I assume, for example, that the idea is not to teach white people that...
“In a society rife with theories and practices that flatten and shrink and chill the human subject, the humanist is the dissenter”
…a complacent humanist is a humanist who has not read his books closely, since...
“There is a dramatic imbalance between the way Jews perceive themselves and the ways we are perceived by others”
There is a dramatic imbalance between the way Jews perceive themselves and the ways...
“…travelers interested in encountering the local population should avoid the places the guidebooks identify as ‘a local favorite’…”
As a rule, travelers interested in encountering the local population should avoid the places...
“The aspects of secular Jewish culture that America has embraced are barely Jewish anymore…”
…as Jews have moved fully into the cultural mainstream, it’s become harder to identify...
“Journalistic institutions slowly transform themselves into silent sweatshops in which words cannot wait for thoughts…”
Writers hover between a decent poverty and an indecent one; they are expected to...
Rabbenu Tam “forged his own path through the vast Talmud, and his personality stands at the fore of independent Tosafist dialectics”
Although Riba’s commentary is the earliest extant representative of the initial stage of the...
“…the relevance of Israel to the younger generation of American Jews is not self-evident…”
Jewish students on campus do not need heavily curated fact-sheets or pro-Israel YouTube videos...
“There is no source anywhere indicating that the two foods must have different berachot” for mishloach manot
The basic requirement is to send two portions, but what exactly constitutes “two portions”?...