How Judaism Protects, Rather than Hinders, Israeli Democracy
As several great thinkers have observed, religion encourages a positive civic culture.
March 23, 2015
Saul Bellow: Jewish in the Gut
His “sense of Judaism, or rather Jewishness, was visceral, not intellectual.”
The late Saul Bellow, the 1976 Nobel laureate in literature, is the subject of a recent autobiography by Zachary Leader. In a review of the first volume (the second is still forthcoming) and of a collection of Bellow’s nonfiction, Abraham Socher writes that the novelist’s “sense of Judaism, or rather Jewishness, was visceral, not intellectual.” As an example, Socher adduces Bellow’s strong stand against the freeing of the pro-Nazi poet Ezra Pound (free registration required):
March 23, 2015
The Election That Didn’t Happen Matters More than the One That Did
Congratulations to Mahmoud Abbas on the eleventh year of his four-year term!
Saul Bellow: Jewish in the Gut
His “sense of Judaism, or rather Jewishness, was visceral, not intellectual.”
A 17th-Century Hebrew Bible’s Journey from Germany to Haifa, via Egypt
A secret 1977 trip to Cairo is involved.
Iran Can Still Be Stopped
There's good reason to believe a strike might have longer-lasting effects than many experts think.