Salman Rushdie and the Western Apologists for Those Who Wish Him Dead
Jimmy Carter and Team To Be Sure.
August 17, 2022
God, Mother of Israel
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?”
The image of God as a father is a common one in Judaism, found in such well-known prayers as the ancient Avinu Malkeynu (“Our Father, Our King”)—and even more common in Christianity. Yet in the Hebrew Bible, and in later Jewish texts, the Almighty is also likened to a mother. Malka Simkovich observes:
August 17, 2022
Israel Studies Isn’t Immune from the Academy’s Anti-Israel Mania
Instead of serving as a bulwark against (or at least a shelter from) vulgar ignorance, it is becoming an adjunct to it.
God, Mother of Israel
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?”
When Sigmund Freud Sent Theodor Herzl Fan Mail
“A sign of my appreciation towards . . . the poet and fighter for our people’s human rights.”
The American Virtuosos Breathing Life into Old-Fashioned Cantorial Music
A revival or a dying gasp?