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 David Mamet The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, filmmaker, novelist, and essayist offers a controversial look at anti-Semitism in modern life, examining the potentially destructive ways in which Jews themselves look for meaning and truth anywhere--in politics, other religions, and in mindless entertainment--but knee jerk never in Judaism itself.
Mamet goes on to analyze what happens when Jews abandon loyalty to their religion and tradition in order, as he sees it, to find acceptance in Israel-bashing liberal society. Unlike more familiar defenses of Israel that are full of facts, Mamet locks onto what.. Location: Suggested Reading |
Gideon Levy Publisher: HaaretzDate of publication: 11/19/2007 / A festive day for peace: Israel is planning to announce a freeze on construction in the settlements as compensation for refusing to discuss the core issues. The Palestinians are ecstatic at all the good-will gestures Israel is throwing their way. First came the release of prisoners, now a freeze on construction, and the prime minister has already spoken with the settler leaders and informed them of the decision. They said it was a "difficult meeting," as it always is, winking at each other deviously. Undoubtedly, Israel wants peace... Location: Deconstruction > Archive |
 Joseph B. Soloveitchik The Lonely Man of Faith is the finest and simplest representation of the thoughts on the meaning of the life of faith amid the many struggles of the modern world. Location: Suggested Reading |
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