Judaism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Love and Awe
A reflection on the weekly Torah portion. Love and awe: the religious mind is bent toward God…
The Spirit of Speech
A reflection on the weekly Torah portion. If a man takes a vow or an oath upon himself,”…
Singer’s Stories
For the first time in a long while, I have been rereading Isaac Bashevis Singer’s collection of…
Herman Wouk, Storyteller
Ten years ago, a friend and colleague suggested that I write “The Great Vatican Novel.” I quickly…
Judaism’s Pro-Natalist Heritage
Tacitus, the great Roman historian of the first two centuries A.D., disdained the Jews’ conviction that it…
Theology Matters
A nineteenth-century German rabbi said that it is far more important for God to describe Man than…
A Proposal for Persuasion
This essay is a response to “Against the Dead Consensus.” The philosophical premise of “Against the Dead…
From the Mount of Olives
Jesus begins his Palm Sunday march into Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives (Matt. 21:1), which stands…
Bring Back the Blue Laws
My home state of North Dakota just removed the respirator from a dying vestige of American culture.…
For a Time Such as This
Many Jews interpret the story of Purim as a series of fortuitous, coincidental events that happen to…
Our Dreyfus Case
In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French Army was convicted of treason on the grounds…
In Defense of Sir Roger
Soon after Sir Roger Scruton was appointed to advise the UK’s Ministry of Housing as chair of…
Death at Tree of Life
On Saturday, October 27, 46-year-old Robert Gregory Bowers shot eleven Jews dead and wounded nine at Pittsburgh’s…
Anti-Semitism and the Rise of Rage
News of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh hit me like a punch…
Fridays Without Charles
Take my word for it: You don’t want to be around me at breakfast. I am not…
