Posts Tagged‘Words of the Week’
#SundaySentence
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
If Bertelsmann intends to shutter Schocken, people like myself would appreciate an announcement (and maybe a Zabar’s-catered shiva party) — really anything besides this unofficial silence, punctured only by a profile’s avoidance of the Jewish contribution to this country’s publishing.
Source: Joshua Cohen, letter to The New York Times Magazine (print edition dated July 10, 2022; I have been unable, thus far, to locate the letter online).
Words of the Week: Heidi Rabinowitz
Words of the Week: Heidi Rabinowitz
“You Be You, The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family by Jonathan Branfman may not seem like an obvious choice for coverage on The Book of Life, but I was fascinated by the fact that it had been translated into Yiddish to make it accessible not only to scholars of modern Yiddish but to Hasidic families. Branfman brings both Jewish and gender expertise as a scholar in both fields. Translator Lili Rosen is not only a translator but also a cultural consultant and actor on the Netflix hit Unorthodox and other Yiddish-related media. They combined their talents to create a book for 7-12 year old readers that is affirming and inspiring.”
(more…)Words of the Week: Jonathan Greenblatt
“Anti-Zionism, in its current form, is not just the intellectual opposition to this idea. It is a belief system predicated on the negation of Jewish nationhood and the Jewish right to self-determination. These anti-Zionist groups deny the historic and spiritual connection that Jews have to the land of Israel and seek to de-legitimize and extinguish the existence of the world’s only Jewish state.
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