96 An earnest plea to rabbis for non-partisan sermons this Yom Kippur View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 23/09/2020 An earnest plea to rabbis for non-partisan sermons this Yom Kippur The Rosh Hashanah death of the 87-year-old Supreme Court Justice …
Isabel Wilkerson’s New Book ‘Caste’ Clings to the Past
96 Isabel Wilkerson’s New Book ‘Caste’ Clings to the Past View this email in your browser Jewish Journal 10/09/2020 Isabel Wilkerson’s New Book ‘Caste’ Clings to the Past In March 2008, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign nearly imploded when reporters revealed that his pastor, …
Natan Sharansky on the virtues of a life lived backward
96 Natan Sharansky on the virtues of a life lived backward View this email in your browser The Forward 16/09/2020 Natan Sharansky on the virtues of a life lived backward This essay was adapted from a new book Natan Sharansky wrote with Gil Troy, “Never …
CoroRosh Hashanah: 5780 has been a year to absorb – and to sift
96 CoroRosh Hashanah: 5780 has been a year to absorb – and to sift View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 16/09/2020 CoroRosh Hashanah: 5780 has been a year to absorb – and to sift Whenever I jog in the Old …
The left and the right are both wrong: For American Jews, Zionism is not political.
96 The left and the right are both wrong: For American Jews, Zionism is not political. View this email in your browser The Forward 09/09/2020 The left and the right are both wrong: For American Jews, Zionism is not political. Among all the …
Take It From a Refusenik: Jews Win When They Are United
96 Take It From a Refusenik: Jews Win When They Are United View this email in your browser T he Jewish Week 08/09/2020 Take It From a Refusenik: Jews Win When They Are United By: Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy A few years …
Three Warning Signs of Ideological Totalitarianism
Three decades after the Soviet Union fell, embers of the kind of totalitarian thinking that spawned the Communist Revolution are inflaming Western debate—and inciting Americans. Anyone born into Soviet oppression, and who resisted it, knows how important America’s freewheeling culture of free speech and free …
Our Days of Awe nurture shirt-off-your-back givers, not takers
The New York Times recently ran a stunning report: “Parents Got More Time Off; Then the Backlash Started.” The article detailed how America’s wealthiest tech companies unintentionally “created a rift between parents offered more benefits” this year “and resentful workers who don’t have children.” Haves weren’t …
Natan Sharansky’s memoirs are a made-in-Jerusalem story
This week, PublicAffairs of Hachette published Never Alone: Prison, Politics and My People , by Natan Sharansky and me, culminating a three-year dialogue about the Israel-Diaspora dialogue. The copyright page says: “Printed in the United States of America” – but the book truly was made in …
Book Launch: Gil Troy Live with Natan Sharansky
Gil Troy and Natan Sharansky launch their latest book together live on facebook!