The “Moderate Sunni Bloc” Won’t Find a Solution to the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
In fact, no such bloc exists.
October 26, 2018
How Not to Write a Jewish Fantasy Novel
Of demons and deracination.
Set in late-medieval Eastern Europe, Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver has as its heroine a Jewish girl, named Miryem Mandelstam, who is abducted by a group of supernatural beings called the Staryk. Michael Weingrad finds the book’s Jewish characters entirely deracinated, and its message one of superficial tolerance:
October 26, 2018
The End of the Palestinian Parliament
Mahmoud Abbas cracks down on the very possibility of democracy.
Is True Religious Emotion Possible in the Modern World?
Feelings of awe, and dependence on God, are not the same as devotion.
Liberation, Not Colonization, Motivated the Creation of the Jewish State
Setting the record straight.
How Not to Write a Jewish Fantasy Novel
Of demons and deracination.