Arthur Green
By Arthur Green
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Opinion Trump Doesn’t Get It: Our Hatred Of Him Is Our Loyalty To America
On Tuesday afternoon, President Trump called the vast majority of American Jews disloyal. “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” he said. And while he didn’t specify disloyalty to whom, on Wednesday, he doubled down, explaining that a vote for…
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News The Pull of our Inclinations
How nice to write about a subject I know so well — and from experience, not just from books. When it comes to Jewish traditional text, we first hear about the evil urge in Genesis 6:5: “God saw how much human evil there was on earth, that their thoughts were inclined only toward evil, all…
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The Schmooze An Erev Rosh Hashanah Martyr
Hillel Zeitlin (1871-1942), the leading neo-Hasidic thinker in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust, was for Hebrew and Yiddish-reading Jews what Martin Buber was for their more westernized German-reading brethren: the person who rendered the passionate religious life of Hasidism accessible to non-Orthodox Jews. A prolific writer and well-known lecturer, teacher and journalist, Zeitlin was one…
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Opinion How Hasidism Went Astray
For the past half-century, I have been reading and studying the sources of Hasidism with both affection and respect. I have worked as a historian of Hasidic thought and, more recently, as a theologian trying to construct a contemporary Judaism on the basis of Hasidic insights. Like the Hasidic master Pinhas of Korzec, who once…
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