No, Israel Isn’t the Key to All the Middle East’s Problems
“Linkage” sounds a lot like another theory for explaining the world.
February 20, 2024
Allan Bloom On Modesty and What It Means to Be Human
The fact that it’s uncomfortable, unfair, and imbalanced isn’t a quirk of the system but a feature.
In the past half-century, the subject of modesty (in Hebrew, tsni’ut), and, in particular, feminine modesty, has become a major preoccupation in some Orthodox circles, and a major flashpoint for intra-Orthodox debate. Reviewing a collection of writings on the subject, Sarah Rindner turns to an unlikely source: the scholar of political theory Allan Bloom:
February 20, 2024
The Jews Who March for the Destruction of Israel
At a protest, even the lowliest become kings for a day.
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Finding God in the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
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A correspondence from the revived gulag.
Allan Bloom On Modesty and What It Means to Be Human
The fact that it’s uncomfortable, unfair, and imbalanced isn’t a quirk of the system but a feature.