American Historian, Zionist Thinker
American Historian, Zionist Thinker
Dear D, I’m sorry that after hours and hours of serious preparation – including sacrificing precious vacation time — your class mission to Poland was cancelled. I am well aware how different this Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — would have felt for you …
Wednesday night, Jews will experience Coronasederettes — perhaps the smallest seders of our lifetimes. We can make them not just b’seder – ok – but soued-up-super-seders, brimming with meaning even if lacking guests. One path to great meaning is by “welcoming” some Zionist thinkers – or …
96 Gantz: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – or Jiminy Crickett (Bibi’s conscience)? View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 01/04/2020 Gantz: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – or Jiminy Crickett (Bibi’s conscience)? Benny Gantz – the Sorcerer’s Apprentice I get it. Benny Gantz’s surrender …
96 To My Son, Enlisting as a Coronoa-Clouded Soldier View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 25/03/2020 To My Son, Enlisting as a Coronoa-Clouded Soldier Dear A. You’ve reached the long-anticipated day of your enlistment after a most unexpected month. …
96 Remembering my mother with a book, not as a cook View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 05/03/2020 Remembering my mother with a book, not as a cook One day in Champlain Colony, that ramshackle collection of bungalows by the …
96 Fill the Communal Void While Flattening the Corona-Curve View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 18/03/2020 Fill the Communal Void While Flattening the Corona-Curve Going from mourning your mother for a week in Maryland to a two-week Corona-quarantine in Jerusalem, makes “shiva” …
96 Overdosing on Ahashverosh and Haman – Missing Esthers and Mordechais View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 26/02/2020 Overdosing on Ahashverosh and Haman – Missing Esthers and Mordechais It’s sobering to live in a world overdosing on Ahashveroses and Hamans but missing …
96 Judaism’s Liquidoxy rejects extremes, right and left View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 19/02/2020 Judaism’s Liquidoxy rejects extremes, right and left Did I get this right? Iranian mullahs threaten to nuke us. Palestinian terrorists threaten to bomb us. The …
In 2011, when Rabbi Daniel Gordis highlighted “how lonely it can be for an unapologetically pro-Israel student at some of today’s rabbinical schools,” his Conservative and Reform colleagues excoriated him for exaggerating. Today, his criticisms seem mild; things are far worse. Every year, I hear …
96 Max Singer z”l: Happy Conservative, Optimistic Jew, Fulfilled Zionist View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 29/01/2020 Max Singer z”l: Happy Conservative, Optimistic Jew, Fulfilled Zionist Last Thursday, one of Southern Jerusalem’s leading lights, Max Singer, died. This exuberant …