The Saudi Nuclear Program Poses a Danger to Israel
Another byproduct of the 2015 Iran deal.
December 18, 2019
Richard Holbrooke, Self-Knowledge, and the Jewish Idea of Repentance
When “To thine own self be true” is bad advice.
George Packer’s biography of the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke exposes its subject as a social climber, prevaricator, serial adulterer, and disloyal friend, not to mention a man who took pains to keep his Jewish origins secret. Having recently read Packer’s book, Shalom Carmy finds himself reflecting on the author’s claim that his subject’s fatal flaw was a lack of self-knowledge, and on the nature of self-knowledge itself:
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Today’s American Jews Have Much to Learn from Their British Coreligionists about Fighting Anti-Semitism
And from the movement for Soviet Jewry.
Israeli Voters, Not Judges, Must Determine Who Will Lead the Country Next
Netanyahu’s opponents are wrong to put their hopes in the legal system.
Richard Holbrooke, Self-Knowledge, and the Jewish Idea of Repentance
When “To thine own self be true” is bad advice.
How Yiddish Children’s Literature Flourished in the Early Days of the Soviet Union—Only to Have Its Creative Spirit Crushed
From art to crude propaganda.