By Jerome A. Chanes
In Michael Walzer’s new book, the political philosopher asks a very basic question: How much room can there be for politics when God is the ultimate ruler?
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By Jerome A. Chanes
Themes of family ties, Zionism and just plain Jewishness, which come to full flower in Philip Roth’s later masterpieces, are prefigured in ‘Portnoy’s Complaint.’
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By Jerome A. Chanes
‘Out of Palestine’ is a truly fascinating discussion of a period that is still incompletely and insufficiently understood: the last years of the British Mandate in Palestine.
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By Jerome A. Chanes
SUMMER BOOKS: Even with all the books out there, the global history of anti-Semitism has not been sufficiently reported. ‘A Convenient Hatred’ fills that void.
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By Jerome A. Chanes
The history of Yavneh was the history of 20th-century American Orthodoxy itself, refracted through the prism of the campus.Read More