Posts Tagged: Isaiah Berlin
Vow to Wed Yourself to Judaism, and Life
The great Chassidic leader Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, complaining about the Jews’ detachment from Judaism, once said that when a bridegroom stands under the...
The Rebbe’s Prophecy About Israel
In September, 1993, the Oxford University L'Chaim Society, which I founded, was advancing. The organization we had started just a few years earlier had rapidly...
Haym Soloveitchik’s Demolition of Talya Fishman’s Thesis
I have to go back 50 years to when I first met Haym Soloveitchik, the brilliant son of the magisterial and phenomenal late Rabbi JB...
Oliver Stone and Historical Perspective
The film director Oliver Stone has once again ruffled feathers with a controversial television series that justifies those like me who think that, despite the...
Fall of a Jewish LionӬӬӬ
Jerusalem today is booming. While property prices in the United States plummet, in Jerusalem they skyrocket. The city has a youthfulness and dynamism equaled in...
