Abraham Socher is the current and founding editor of the Jewish Review of Books, and professor emeritus at Oberlin College.
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Not a mistake.
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The ungraphable details matter.
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Mistaking the sign for the thing itself.
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When administrators incite mobs.
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On Peter Berger and the Jews.
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Eliyahu Dessler, mussar, Aristotle, and the death of virtue.
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The conflicting ideals of virtue and law.
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A reflective history of Jewish views of death and what follows it.
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Featuring Maimonides and Don DeLillo.
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The professor who thinks the Rothschilds were behind 9/11.
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In Key Largo he gives a variation on a legend from the Talmud.
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James Loeffler’s essay, “ The Death of Jewish Culture ,” is a compelling tour de force , which is to say that it says something important and says it with style but also that, in the swoop and slash...
