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
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.”
In a recent column, David Brooks blames recent mass shootings in America on “a broader movement—anti-pluralism—that now comes in many shapes.” Among the anti-pluralists, writes Brooks, are “Trumpian nationalists, authoritarian populists, and Islamic jihadists”—and also, evidently, Jews. “Eighty years ago,” he laments, “Protestants, Catholics, and Jews did not get along, so a new category was created, Judeo-Christian, which brought formerly feuding people into a new ‘us.’” But now that pluralistic amalgam has come unglued, leaving Judaism in the category of a “dead culture.”
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.