“Popular storytelling in the New World instead tended to celebrate in words and song the larger-than-life exploits of ordinary men and women”
Popular storytelling in the New World instead tended to celebrate in words and song...
“In 1933, the country’s Prohibitionists had to grapple with a political fate worse than failure: oblivion”
In 1933, the country’s Prohibitionists had to grapple with a political fate worse than...
“Gordimer’s approach would ultimately consign Modern Orthodoxy to the ash heaps of Jewish history for its irrelevance. It’s also anti-historic”
For those of us on the fence about these issues, Gordimer’s dialectic is untenable,...
“…a wider battle taking place between the Modern Orthodox establishment, led nominally by the RCA, and a vocal left-wing minority known as Open Orthodoxy”
…last week’s uproar offers another occasion, far from the first in recent years, to...
“…geography plays a key role in L.A.’s Jewish community, with Jews spread out all over the vast city…”
Rabbi Wolpe believes geography plays a key role in L.A.’s Jewish community, with Jews...
“What a dangerous distraction the Iowa spectacle has been from the dysfunction and unfairness of democracy as we now know it”
If we’re lucky, the day will come when we look back at the Iowa...
“Gordimer’s tactics do achieve one purpose; they squelch free and open debate”
Gordimer’s tactics do achieve one purpose; they squelch free and open debate. It’s always...
“In congratulating ourselves on our past, we neglect the work that must be done in the present”
…I wonder whether we’re running the grave risk of turning Heschel into an American-Jewish...
“Israeli wines need to break out of the kosher market for the long-term health of the industry…”
Israeli wines need to break out of the kosher market for the long-term health...
“What the craft brewing industry has done for beer consumption in America goes beyond expanding product differentiation”
What the craft brewing industry has done for beer consumption in America goes beyond...