Monthly Archives: December 2022
Dialectic and Beauty
Amidst a rainy night I was reperusing some Encyclopedia Britannica’s articles, and since by hook or by crook, as the folkloric phrase runs, I always meet German mythologies and Greek stanzas of yore, I...
Likud Knesset member: ‘I’d prefer 5,000 like Avi Maoz to one Ofer Cassif’
Likud Knesset member May Golan said on Tuesday that she would prefer 5,000 MKs like Noam Party head Avi Maoz to one Hadash-Ta’al MK Ofer Cassif.
Golan made the remark, referring to a recent controversy...
Rep. Lee Zeldin among newly elected board members of Republican Jewish Coalition
U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), one of only two Jewish Republicans serving in Congress, headlines the list of newly elected board members of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC).
Zeldin, who recently lost a closer-than-expected gubernatorial...
Lapid calls for protests against prospective Netanyahu government
Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid Party on Tuesday called on supporters to attend protests planned for this weekend against the emerging government of Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
“We’re done being upset by...
Netanyahu’s Likud, UTJ reach interim coalition deal
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party reached an interim coalition agreement with the United Torah Judaism Party on Tuesday.
According to Israeli media, UTJ head Yitzchak Goldknopf will oversee the Construction and Housing Ministry...
Ye: ‘Jewish people, forgive Hitler today’
In an interview released Monday night, Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) continued his media tour of praising Adolf Hitler and spewing antisemitism.
The interview was released by Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes as part of a...
Birthright alumni go in search of the next Jewish comedy star
It has been proven that the Birthright program produces lifelong connections between young Jews and Israel. Studies also show that participants are more likely to build Jewish families. But could it produce the next...
Local Performances Spotlight Holocaust-Era Composers
Polish-born pianist, Daniel Wnukowski, performed at two venues during his recent visit to San Diego County. On Sunday afternoon, November 13, he gave a recital of works by Mozart, Chopin and Schumann in the...
Looking Behind The “Unspeakable Lies”: Russia’s Criminal War Against Ukraine
“Happy are those who know that behind all speeches are still the unspeakable lies….”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Possibility of Being
Russian fabrications about Ukraine are sweeping and “unspeakable.” Still, the twentieth-century German poet Rainer Maria Rilke can...
The Torah, morality, antisemitism and the Tao
The question of the origin of morality is probably unanswerable, but a courageous attempt was recently made on this site, and with it an even more daunting effort to explain the cause of antisemitism.
In his article,...