In the year since the Harvey Weinstein case hit the headlines and the #MeToo movement exploded in every direction, I’ve felt increasingly distressed by the number of prominent Jewish men among the accused. Aside from the obvious names—from Senator Al Franken to conductor James Levine, from actors and journalists to ...
The news from Central Europe seems to be uniformly bad: democracy threatened, rule of law subverted, historical revisionism triumphant. It all carries a nasty 1930s flavor. To Western readers, moreover, most of that news seems to come from Budapest and Warsaw. We don’t hear much from such places as Bratislava, ...
Is the traditional family the foundation of democracy? It depends what kind of traditional family you’re talking about. Throughout most
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Is the traditional family the foundation of democracy? It’s the foundation of many things—happiness, social order, identity—and it’s essential to
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Ribbed moiré silk from Greece, tulle and silver-tinsel embroidery from Egypt, silk satin from Ottoman Palestine, indigo-dyed goat hair from
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INDEPENDENT It’s a fundamental principle of Judaism that you are not obligated to do more than you can manage. “Says
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