Remembering Dvir Sorek, the Nineteen-Year-Old Victim of a Terror Attack in Israel
He was a boy with “light in his eyes.”
August 9, 2019
How Jews Kept Time During the Holocaust
Keeping an eye on the future and the past helped guard against the present.
“Many writers and scholars have taken note of the ways that Holocaust victims experienced an assault on their fundamental sense of time,” the writer Eli Rubin observes in a review of a new book, The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars by Alan Rosen. But Rosen is less interested in the assault itself than in the ways Jews caught up in the Holocaust resisted it. Crucial to maintaining their sense of time was the art of calendar-making, and especially the art of making a Jewish calendar (lu’aḥ).
August 9, 2019
Exempting Ultra-Orthodox Israelis from Army Service Might Be the Best Way to Get Them to Enlist
A counterintuitive solution.
No, David Brooks, Jews Who Like Being Jewish and Not “Judeo-Christian” Aren’t White Supremacists
The New York Times columnist seems to think Judaism is a “dead culture.”
How Jews Kept Time During the Holocaust
Keeping an eye on the future and the past helped guard against the present.