Good books with bad politics are not a new problem. On the contrary, the subject is one of the oldest in Western thought, going all the way back to Plato’s “Republic.” For the ancient Greeks, the “Iliad” was the ultimate good book, playing a formative role similar to that of the Bible in later times.
Una interrogación figura junto a la fecha de la muerte del escritor libertino Christopher Marlowe en su vidriera de la Poet’s Corner, un rincón de la abadía de Westminster (Londres) donde se rinde tributo a los literatos ingleses, entre los que está William Shakespeare. Sus admiradores, organizados en la Marlowe Society, presionaron para incluir el
Many buses exploded here in a dark 10-year period. Between the suicide attack on Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Street in October 1994 and the double suicide attack in Be’er Sheva in August 2004, more than 20 buses went up in flames. The repeated terror attacks in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Afula, Yagur, Megiddo, Meron, Karkur, Wadi
¿Por qué los judíos norteamericanos están cada vez más alejados de Israel? Elliott Abrams y mi amigo y colega Daniel Gordis, en sus últimos ensayos en Mosaic, sostienen que la respuesta no está en la configuración política y las políticas del gobierno israelí actual, sino en la naturaleza cambiante de la vida judía estadounidense contemporánea,
I am often called to speak to political and religious leadership groups on their “factfinding” or educational missions to Israel. Over the last number of years, the sponsors have subtly shifted their aims from a simple “proIsrael” agenda to hoping that the participants leave with an understanding that our reality is complicated. We view simplistic
The 50th Gilboa Walk planned for this weekend is the last of the large popular walks still held in Israel and the only one that attracts participants from abroad. The mass walks have declined in past decades, perhaps as a reflection of the changes in Israeli society. “Once we used to walk 30 or 40
Bernard-Henri Lévy sits in the library of Maida Vale’s magnificent Victorian Sephardi Synagogue waiting to deliver a talk on his latest book, L’Esprit du Judaisme, a celebration of Jewish thought. The venue is appropriately grand: the synagogue was built in glorious mock-Byzantine style and was designed to accommodate the increasingly confident and upwardly mobile Spanish-Portuguese
testimonio muy personal de nuestra amiga y ocasional colaboradora, líder comunitaria en los EEUU In January, I was invited by Dr. Charles Small, founder of the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy (ISGAP) to come to Rome for Pope Francis’s first visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome. I was very excited–
This week it happened: Benjamin Netanyahu completed 10 years as Israel’s prime minister. Apart from David Ben-Gurion, Netanyahu has spent more time at the helm of Israeli sovereignty than anyone. But Netanyahu’s impressive achievement isn’t his only one. For about a quarter century this talented, haunted and controversial man has stood at the hub of
Anochece en Jerusalén. Poco a poco los comerciantes del bullicioso Mahane Yehuda, el principal mercado del oeste de la ciudad, cierran sus puestos. Un gesto que, lejos de apagar la vida del lugar, abre la puerta a un espacio diferente. Caen los cierres metálicos y con ellos cobran vida Einstein, Gandhi, Spielberg, Maimonides, Ben Gurion,