Spying on Congress, and Leaders of Allied Nations, Is an Abuse of Executive Power
“The kind of conduct we see in third-world countries.”
January 4, 2016
The Twilight of the Jewish Lower East Side
A view without nostalgia.
Born in 1954, Elliot Jager grew up on New York’s Lower East Side after it had already ceased to be a thriving Jewish immigrant neighborhood. Jager, who now resides in Jerusalem, considers this corner of Manhattan in its present form, and reminisces about its past:
January 4, 2016
Is the Coarsening of Political Discourse Connected with the Decline of Religion?
When politics takes the place of religion, the stakes change.
The Twilight of the Jewish Lower East Side
A view without nostalgia.
Pharaoh versus the Heroic Midwives
They refused to see human procreation in purely naturalistic terms.
Melding Analytical Philosophy with Jewish Theology
In a religion that eschews doctrine.