The Anti-Semitism September 11 Revealed
Revisiting a 2001 article.
September 12, 2024
The Auto-Anti-Semitism of a French Jewish Mystic
Simone Weil’s strange life and stranger ideas.
It’s hard to find a figure more different from Rabbi Kook that the French philosopher Simon Weil, although both were inclined toward mysticism, committed to living according to their ideals, and, of course, Jews. Judith Thurman delves into her strange life, including her hostility toward the religion of her birth:
September 12, 2024
America Still Can’t Afford to Take a Holiday from History
Jihadists are emboldened by U.S. withdrawals, and by new alliances.
In the Debate, Both Candidates Failed the Foreign-Policy Test
America should want its allies to defeat its enemies.
The Mystical Theologian of Religious Zionism
Abraham Isaac Kook.
The Auto-Anti-Semitism of a French Jewish Mystic
Simone Weil’s strange life and stranger ideas.