myth Archives – Jewish Journal

The myth and function of the Passover plagues

Roger Price April 3, 2017

Opinion: The myth of the Iranian-American Jew

Jewish Journal April 4, 2012

This one’s for our children — the teens and 20-somethings who were born in this country or who’ve lived here most of their life, who have no memory of Iran except what’s been passed on to them or what they’ve constructed with their imagination.

Religion: The ‘first and worst’ explanation

Jewish Journal October 23, 2008

It belongs to the terrified childhood of our species, before we knew about germs or could account for earthquakes. It belongs to our childhood, too, in the less charming sense of demanding a tyrannical authority: a protective parent who demands compulsory love even as he exacts a tithe of fear.

Image and Reality in L.A.

Yuval Rotem August 19, 2004

Critics say Los Angeles is all image. The city, they claim, presents an illusion to the world much like the movies Hollywood projects on its big screens. The myth goes that it\’s a city of facades, with the favored tools are the editor\’s airbrush or the plastic surgeon\’s scalpel. There are no friendships here, only contacts and connections, they say.