“The Jewish-Italian connection is so central to the Mafia legend that one senses it must be operating on a kind of meta-level…”
In talking about the Mob, we airily use words like “mythological,” but there’s a...
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“The phenomenon of a minority people arising out of the ashes of Auschwitz to reframe not only their world but to also profoundly impact the broader culture may best summarize this century of Jewish influence”
…out of the trauma and tragedy of the earlier decades of the 20th century,...
“…how did a people that envisions itself in prayer as a community of tents, itinerant in the wilderness, become so fixated on construction projects?”
The fact that Oz is an outspoken opponent of occupation and the policies required...
“By engaging in a kind of weird witch-hunt against Bannon, sifting through his garbage to find scraps of anti-Semitism, Jewish pundits are misunderstanding and misrepresenting Trumpism itself”
By engaging in a kind of weird witch-hunt against Bannon, sifting through his garbage...
“The Jewish mix of particular and universal is not easy to figure out, for Jews or anyone else”
Up to modernity, Jews and non-Jews lived within boundaries, well defined from within and...
“…for Bannon, and many on the Trumpian right, the crucial political divide in today’s world is between internationalists (who they call “globalists”) and nationalists”
…for Bannon, and many on the Trumpian right, the crucial political divide in today’s...
“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:...
“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...
“More Jews in the West than elsewhere were raised by intermarried parents”
… the undeniable impact of intermarriage and other features of Jewish social networks, or...
“Should Auschwitz or Sinai be the orienting category shaping our understanding of the rebirth of the State of Israel?”
One of the fundamental issues facing the new spirit of maturity in Israel is:...