
A professor at the University of Houston, Robert Zaretsky is also a culture columnist at the Forward.
A professor at the University of Houston, Robert Zaretsky is also a culture columnist at the Forward.
Neil Postman's 1984 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' anticipated our image-saturated, post-literate world
Lee Yaron tells '100 human stories' amid the horrific wreckage of 10/7
To observers of Napoleon and Hitler, the results of elections in Thuringia and Saxony might seem familiar
For French Jews after a bombing outside a synagogue, it's 'plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose'
For linguist Shalom Lappin, author of 'The New Antisemitism,' the current crisis for Jews is also a crisis for liberal democracy
A supremely contradictory figure, Alain Delon, who died at 88, was rightly called a 'sacred monster'
You could say the effort smacks of Orwell — if anyone in charge actually knew who Orwell was
History repeated itself in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. With Israel's treatment of prisoners, it's repeating itself again.
אַלען זינגער איז אַ קינדער־דאָקטער וואָס האָט דורכגעפֿירט בריתן, מערסטנס פֿאַר רעפֿאָרם־ און קאָנסערוואַטיווע משפּחות
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