David Klinghoffer
By David Klinghoffer
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Opinion Shame on Envious Anti-Americanism
‘Aman,” the Talmud teaches us, “envies everyone but his son and his student.” In all the talk surrounding the war in Iraq, the pervasiveness of envy and a related emotion, shame, has gotten far less attention than it deserves. We may wish to think that leaders and nations are driven by visions of the future,…
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Opinion Abraham’s Iraq Mistake
‘Turn it over and over, for everything is in it.” So the mishnaic tractate Pirke Avot tells us of the capaciousness of Torah: Everything that concerns us in our private or public lives is addressed by Jewish tradition — everything, including what America’s plans should be for post-war Iraq. In making the case for war,…
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Opinion America Severs Its Abrahamic Ties, One ‘Small, Good Thing’ at a Time
The writer Raymond Carver once penned a short story with a distinctly minimalist yet memorable title: “A Small, Good Thing.” It’s about a boy who dies in a hospital of “complications,” and whose parents are comforted by a friendly baker who gives them warm rolls — food being a “small, good thing” that makes us…
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Opinion Animal Rights and the Political Animal
Is Judaism a religion of the left or the right? Or neither? I raise the question because I’ve been reading a new book that on the surface seems to have little to do with Judaism. Matthew Scully’s “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy” is one of the…
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News Twice-Converted: An Anglican’s Tortuous Route to Faith
Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life By Lauren F. Winner Algonquin, 303 pages, $23.95. * * *| Once a committed, educated Jew, now a passionate Anglican Christian, Lauren F. Winner presents a problem to anyone who has thought about the sociology of conversion. Today, Jews who have experienced traditional Judaism —…
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