Posts Tagged: Jewish Intellectuals
Remembering the Great Jewish Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb, prolific historian of the Victorian period, professor emeritus of history at City University of New York, graduate of New Utrecht High School in...
Jews Against Themselves, by Edward Alexander (REVIEW)
Among the lamentably small coterie of Jewish intellectuals and academics who defend Israel against the anti-Zionist tirades of its legions of liberal and leftist Jewish...
The True Source of Religious-Secular Tension in Israel: The Arrogance of Ben-Gurion (and now Naftali Bennett)
As the latest round of coalition-building maneuvering plays out in Israel - with Bibi Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett (the new false-messiah of religious nationalists; the previous...
NIF, Peter Beinart & J Street: They Can’t Love
On Thursday, The New Israel Fund placed a full page ad in The New York Times, which of course bashed Israel. I found myself thinking,...
Greek Wisdom In The 21st Century
In the latest New York Review of Books, Mary Beard, a popular lecturer, blogger, and professor of classics at Cambridge University, bemoans the ...