Words of the Week
Not mine—Matti Friedman’s.
(more…)Posts Tagged‘Israel’
Jewish Literary Links
Toward the end of each week, the My Machberet blog presents a collection of links, drawn primarily from the world of Jewish books and writing.
(more…)Words of the Week: Yitzchak Blau
“Those groups that criticize Israel without ever praising it, criticizing the Palestinians, or putting Israel’s actions in context, add fuel to a corrupt fire.”
Source: Yitzchak Blau, “12 Falsehoods About the Israeli-Arab Conflict” (The Times of Israel blogs)
Words of the Week: Joshua Brook
“Respecting another people’s national memory should indeed evoke empathy, but it does not require wholesale adoption of their self-justifying narrative of blamelessness, nor accession to their maximalist political demands, particularly where those demands include national suicide. And Beinart’s implicit claim that only one party to this tragic conflict is due an historical reckoning is as unlikely to further the cause of peace and reconciliation as it is morally obtuse.”
Source: Joshua Brook, “Incoming! Watch Out, Peter Beinart Is Fighting the Good Fight (Again)” (Fathom)
Jewish Literary Links
Toward the end of each week, the My Machberet blog presents a collection of links, drawn primarily from the world of Jewish books and writing.
(more…)Words of the Week: David Grossman (via Daniel Gordis)
First, read Daniel Gordis’s introduction.
Then, watch this clip from David Grossman’s exchange with students who had read his novel To the End of the Land.
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