“I think the purpose of Jewish journalism is to probe and investigate and analyze Jewish identity”
Too many people think that the purpose of Jewish journalism is to strengthen Jewish...
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“The problem with the Golden Age of American Zionism was that for far too many Jews, support for Israel became a vicarious faith…”
The problem with the Golden Age of American Zionism was that for far too...
“The Internet allows those who deviate from traditional Judaism and who have multiple subcultural identities or labels to have a voice”
The emergence of new Jewish subcultures seems to be growing at a rapid pace...
“…Ozick, however fierce her identification as a Jew, is admirable in her freedom from identitarian parti pris”
Ozick the channeler of the literary past may seem remote from our present literary...
“Vicarious victimhood has become all too accepted as the organizing category’ of 21st-century Jewish identity”
Vicarious victimhood has become all too accepted as the “organizing category” of 21st-century Jewish...
“We understandably become so preoccupied with Jew hatred…that we’ve forgotten to explore what we actually are”
Anti-Semitism is undeniably on campuses — even at some elementary schools — and along...
“It is as an individual that I am moved by an anxiety for the meaning of my existence as a Jew”
It is as an individual that I am moved by an anxiety for the...
“…for most of the Jewish public in Israel, Jewish identity…is a fundamental, central, and irreplaceable component in any worldview or aspiration for the future”
…unless there is a change of consciousness of Marxist proportions among the Israeli people,...
“So while many Zionists often relate to the Jewish people as an object with a problem…, I relate to my people as a subject with desires”
I honestly don’t feel myself motivated by Jewish suffering so much as by what...
“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...