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The Destructive Impact of Cultural Heideggerianism – David P. Goldman

THE MIZRACHI “REVOLUTION,” JUST beginning in the 1970s, would affect much more than the music industry. Israeli political life, too, was about to undergo a seismic shift. The Mizrachim had long lived under the thumb of Arab majorities. They came to Israel when their host countries pressured or forced them to leave. Often expelled without most of

Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

The Jewish community in the United States, the largest in the world, is disappearing faster than any other since the Lost Ten Tribes vanished from the pages of history more than two and a half thousand years ago.

Jonathan Sacks • A Letter in the Scroll: Understanding Our Jewish Identity and Exploring the Legacy of the World's Oldest Religion

There is a twenty-first-century clerisy, though it is rarely religious and operates in a secular consumer society. Its members aren’t priests. They are journalists, entertainers, credentialed professionals, and teachers. They provide the images, narratives, arguments, and artworks that reinforce the binding outlook, and they police dissenters as... See more

Our Neo-Feudal Future | Joel Kotkin

But no one tried to save the culture of Hasidism, for example, with its devotion to ordinary, everyday holiness—or Misnagdism, the opposing religious movement within traditional Eastern European Judaism, whose energy in the years before the war was channeled into the rigorous study of musar, or ethics. Entire academies devoted to the Musar Movement

Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

The shift was apparent from the guest list. Included for the first time with the mainstream Jewish leaders were the heads of Americans for Peace Now and the newly founded J Street, both organizations stridently critical of Israel and its traditional American supporters. Their presence rattled the other participants, many of whom had been personally

Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

The Benedict Option

Rod Dreher

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The prophets count on us to be appalled by injustice.

Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life

This nebulous cabal made support for Israel, portrayed as a militantly theocratic and colonialist state, the centerpiece of America’s postwar Middle East policy and the primary source of Muslim rage against the United States.