As racism and nativism are on the rise, a re-reading of the binding of Isaac might prove all too relevant.
Israeli ministers stopped just short of charging John Kerry with anti-Semitism for linking ISIS to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But, J.J. Goldberg points out, Netanyahu draws the same link.
Alexander Nemser’s prose poems about the binding of Isaac are surreal, disturbing, funny, smart and anything but pious.