The Evidence of BDS Anti-Semitism Speaks for Itself
Behind the Mask.
October 18, 2019
Hannah Arendt’s Inadvertent Warning about the Dangers of Parochial Intellectual Pretension
Through her own lack of solidarity with her people.
As a college student in the 1960s, Shalom Carmy first read Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition, which had been recommended to him by his rabbinic mentor Aharon Lichtenstein. He found much in it to be admired. At the time, the controversies in intellectual Jewish circles over Arendt’s best-known—and deeply flawed—book, Eichmann in Jerusalem, meant little to him. Although Carmy never lost his appreciation for Arendt’s more sophisticated works, he describes how his attitude toward her changed:
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The Iraqi Protests Are an Opportunity for Iran
Even as a salutary nationalist sentiment is on the rise.
The Recent Deterioration in Syria May Break Israel’s Political Deadlock
The need for a functioning government is more important than any leader or party.
Hannah Arendt’s Inadvertent Warning about the Dangers of Parochial Intellectual Pretension
Through her own lack of solidarity with her people.
How Israel Saved the Ibex
The return of a biblical wild goat.