And should we add a confession on Yom Kippur “for the sin of opening browser windows of distraction”? On Aristotle’s akrasia and Maimonides’s teshuvah.
To the right, Micah Goodman is of the left. To the left, he is of the right. On the “Catch 67” of Israeli politics.
How Shakespeare helps us think about the akedah, and vice versa.
To the right, Micah Goodman is of the left. To the left, he is of the right. On the “Catch 67” of Israeli politics.
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Patriotism and Its Discontents
While many Jews embraced the Russian revolutionary cause from the very beginning—four of the seven members of the first Bolshevik Politburo were Jews—the revolution did not embrace them for long.
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Swimming in an Inky Sea
Ilana Kurshan, a hyper-literary, ideologically egalitarian, hopeless romantic (in her words), doesn’t fit the typical profile of a Daf Yomi participant.
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Journeys Without End
For some three decades Lionel and Diana Trilling shared a limelight that was not quite identical but never entirely separate.
The Last Word
None of these four novels by American Jewish writers is fully at home in Israel—they’re more like Mars orbiters than rovers. They’re not permanently on the ground.
From Distant Cousins by Matti Friedman | Fall 2017
In the summer of 1977, two old friends ran into each other in front of a Paris bookstore and found themselves arguing about Simone Weil, Judaism, and their lives.
