Jacques Berlinerblau
By Jacques Berlinerblau
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Opinion Commemorating Philip Roth means confronting his limitations head on
A 90th birthday event in the late author’s honor is an occasion to remember his gifts and his failings, writes a Georgetown University scholar
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Opinion Untangling the Oxymoron of the Secular Jew
‘Secular” is to “Jew” as “holy” is to “Torah,” as “noisy” is to “grogger,” as “crotchety” is to “Larry David.” Which is another way of saying that this coupling of adjective and noun sounds logical, natural and familiar. Could the same be said of a shiduch on the order of “secular Southern Baptist,” or “secular…
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