America Must Not Repeat the Mistake of Letting Islamic State Rebound from an Incomplete Defeat
Precipitous withdrawal will encourage Pakistan and Iran.
June 7, 2019
Much Modern Fiction Explores the Dissolution of Families. The Book of Ruth Explores a Family’s Restoration
Three literary responses to one biblical book.
Both the American novelist Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and the Israeli novelist Meir Shalev’s Two She-Bears feature main characters named Ruth, and employ parallels—in the former case, explicit—to the biblical book of that name, read in many synagogues on the holiday of Shavuot. Examining both novels’ use of biblical motifs, Sarah Rindner contrasts them to a short story by the great Hebrew writer S.Y. Agnon, “In the Prime of Her Life,” which is replete with echoes of the book of Ruth. Rindner writes:
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A New Auschwitz Exhibit Gets Everything Right—but Fails by Turning the Jews into a Metaphor
No, the Holocaust didn’t happen because of a lack of love.
Bill de Blasio’s Shameful Whitewashing of Left-Wing Anti-Semitism
Which ignores the rash of attacks on Orthodox Jews.
Jerusalem’s Maverick Mayor and the City’s Delicate Ethnic and Religious Balance
Meet Moshe Lion.
Much Modern Fiction Explores the Dissolution of Families. The Book of Ruth Explores a Family’s Restoration
Three literary responses to one biblical book.