Beinart To Publish Full Book on Zionism, 2011
Many Jewish journalists, myself included, spent a good deal of this past spring discussing Peter Beinart's provocative essay on liberal Zionism. If you thought that horse died, think again:...
View ArticleDavid Mamet: Before He Was Conservative, He Was Jewish. Discuss.
Now that he is an established potentate of American theater, David Mamet has had no trouble saying what he really thinks. Jews may remember his 2002 essay in The Forward, where he lambasted Jews for...
View ArticleSneak Preview! Amos Oz's New Book
On October 20, Amos Oz's latest book--his 14th--will get released in the United States. But it's been out for at least a month in England, and the reviews have been strong. The wordisthat it's a...
View ArticleMaurice Sendak: On Jews, Death, and "The Bulls--t of Innocence"
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the author of the classic, sepulchral children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” has something of a potty-mouth. But still it feels like one. Maurice Sendak, the...
View ArticleMy Problem With David Brooks (and the odd company he keeps)
Like many liberals, David Brooks is a conservative I can like. But every now and then he falls in with the wrong conservative crowd. And this week it was in his swooning endorsement of Charles Murray...
View ArticleA Revelation: Elaine Pagels and the Jewish Cult Behind the Book of Revelations
It can’t be said that no one pays any attention to scholarly books about the Bible. After all, works by Robert Alter and Harold Bloom are often best-sellers.read more
View ArticleJ'Accuse! Robert Alter on Nathan Englander, a New Literary Feud
When I saw that the new issue of The New Republic had Robert Alter reviewing a new work by Nathan Englander, I instinctively thought it’d be of Englander’s new translation of the Passover Haggadah....
View ArticleOn the Jewish Mount Rushmore, Would Ulysses S. Grant Make it?
Do you ever wonder what, one hundred years from now, historians will make of Obama’s record? And how about something more specific: his record with Jews? I do. But reading Jenna Weissman Joselit’s...
View ArticleObama on Jews and American History: A Speech Worth Remembering
Shame on me for not knowing that May was Jewish American Heritage Month. To be sure, it lacks the profile of Black History Month, but apparently in Washington it’s a big deal. I was reminded of that...
View ArticleFree Book Excerpt from the Rebbe
Free Book Excerpt From The "Rebbe" The first in a series of free books excerpts from The Jewish Week: read more
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