How Bernie Sanders’s Impoverished View of Judaism Has Desensitized Him to Anti-Semitism
No Jewish life, only Jewish death.
March 5, 2020
The Holiday of Purim Emphasizes the Durability of Jewish Identity That Shakespeare Denied
Hath not a Jew costumes?
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and the biblical book of Esther share a few notable similarities, writes Meir Soloveichik: both feature a disguised heroine, an anti-Semite, and a Jew who tries to take revenge on him. Shakespeare’s play concludes with the erasure of identity: Portia, dressed as a man, persuades the Jew Shylock to convert to Christianity, enacting the apostle Paul’s declaration that “there is neither Jew nor Greek; . . . there is neither male nor female.” Esther, by contrast, is a story of Jewish identity’s abiding persistence and its emergence in life’s most consequential moments. Esther is about Judaism’s endurance:
March 5, 2020
Don’t Let Traffic Jams Detract from the Jewish State’s Remarkable Achievements
The New York Times should know that betting against Israel is a losing proposition.
The Holiday of Purim Emphasizes the Durability of Jewish Identity That Shakespeare Denied
Hath not a Jew costumes?
Kenya, Jews, and Zionism—through the Eyes of the Late Kenyan President’s Jewish Personal Physician
From Herzl to Daniel arap Moi.
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner: The Duo Who Helped Bring the Jewish Comic Sensibility to America
The almost-one-hundred-year-old men.