The Challenge of ‘Ever After’
January 2023:Review of Invited to Life: Finding Hope After the Holocaust, by B.A. Van Sise Any attempt to present the experiences of Holocaust survivors faces daunting challenges. There’s a delicacy that’s required, entrusted, as one is, with incomparably precious materials. The weight of responsibility, the transcendent standards are ever-present. The worldly, moral question—“What would you have […]
Read Article »Now It All Makes Sense: ‘Palestine’ as Keystone
September 2022:The word “Palestine” has become wildly mythologized, has come to fairly drip with classic anti-Semitic associations, generally unrecognized as such.
Read Article »The Big Lie Comes to Colleyville: Fairy Tale vs. Storied Truth
January 2022:The fight to defend the truth of the Jewish people is the fight for the possibility of truth itself. And the fight for truth is, in the end, always the defense of reality against those who would attempt to deny and overpower it.
Read Article »Transitional Thoughts on Trans-
February 2022:If the word “nonbinary” has assumed a sudden cultural importance, whether as a mere trend or a significant indication of future developments, it has the undeniable function of creating a new binary.
Read Article »Looking Left, Looking Right: Anti-Semitism in the Places of Hope and Truth
March 2021:In a world of lies the lie is not removed from the world by means of its opposite, but only by means of a world of truth. (Franz Kafka, The Fourth Notebook, The Blue Octavo Notebooks) Introduction: Why look, at all? Why should anyone really care about anti-Semitism, beyond those directly affected? To get by […]
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