Black Money
Terrorism is not cheap. Find a way of taking terrorists’ money, the logic would seem to dictate, and you may have a way of shutting them down.
Child of Occupation
Hidden in Modiano's explosive novellas is a desire for answers, a quest for understanding, perhaps even a search for identity, all of which becomes clearer as his writing matures and his methodical qualities rise to the surface.
Exodus and Consciousness
Who left Egypt ? And how did the Israelites experience God? Richard Friedman is a biblical detective, James Kugel is more of a literary anthropologist.
God’s Law in Human Hands
A Judean, a Stoic, a Jewish philosopher, a Jesus follower, and a rabbi walk into a seminar room at Yale, and Professor Christine Hayes asks them, “What do you mean when you say divine law?”
In (Partial) Defense of Doublethink
How does one survive psychologically under the control of chaotic evil? Take Evgenia Ginszburg, for example . . .
In the City of Killing
The Kishinev pogrom originated in a rumor, widely disseminated and believed around the area that Easter, that the imperial authorities had given permission for several days of uninterrupted violence against the Jews.
Jews, Revolutionism, and Doublethink
Even in the Gulag, it was difficult to give up the belief in the Revolution. Take Evgenia Ginzburg, for example . . .
Law, Justice, and Memory in Poland
Under the Law and Justice Party, Poland has just criminalized the life stories of its Jewish survivors. Here’s why.
Letters, Spring 2018
Toynbee’s “Zionist Card,” Their Man in Beijing?, Kibbutz Dreams, and the Mortara Affair Redux
Moses, Murder, and the Jewish Psyche
Sigmund Freud had always identified with Moses. At the end of his life, as the Nazis rose to power, he returned to the Bible and the origins of the Jewish psyche. We all know his scandalous theory—or do we?