Hamas’s Confidence Shows Why Hostage Talks Aren’t Working
The U.S. is pressuring Israel, not the terrorists.
September 10, 2024
The Encyclopedia Britannica and Its Jews
Mortimer J. Adler and others.
In 1967, Joseph Epstein was hired as part of an editorial team tasked with revising and updating the Encyclopedia Britannica. Not long thereafter, Mortimer J. Adler, the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany and the great evangelist of popularizing philosophy, took over the project. Of Adler, Epstein writes, “Mortimer’s intentions were of the highest; his grasp of reality of the lowest.” But Adler was one of many fascinating characters Epstein describes, and certainly not the only Jew:
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How a Sense of National Belonging Explains Israeli Fertility
A connection to past and to future.
It’s in Europe’s Interest to Change Its Attitude toward Israel
The continent shouldn’t want to see an Islamist statelet in Gaza.
The Encyclopedia Britannica and Its Jews
Mortimer J. Adler and others.
The Death of a Synagogue
How to shutter a congregation with grace.