Palestinian Acceptance of Israel as the Jewish State Must Be a Prerequisite to Further Negotiations
And Washington should demand that it is.
October 19, 2018
Milton Himmelfarb’s Complex and Idiosyncratic Spirituality
A Jewish intellectual who bucked the general wisdom.
This Sunday will mark the 100th birthday of the Jewish analyst and intellectual Milton Himmelfarb, who died in 2006. Perhaps best known for his famous quip, following the 1968 presidential election, that “Jews earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans,” and for his dire and prescient warnings about declining American Jewish birthrates, Himmelfarb also devoted much energy to Bible scholarship—ancient, medieval, and modern. His daughter, the classicist Martha Himmelfarb, examines his relationship with Jewish tradition in her reflection on his life and legacy:
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Has America Lost Afghanistan?
Yesterday’s attack and Washington’s lack of will.
Milton Himmelfarb’s Complex and Idiosyncratic Spirituality
A Jewish intellectual who bucked the general wisdom.
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He understood his adopted country’s potential, and its vulnerabilities.
Israel’s New High-Speed Railway and the End of Old Israel
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