Philosophers only rarely achieve the celebrity of a rock star or a sports hero, but Bernard-Henri Lévy, who has been described as “France’s greatest philosopher,” is an exception.
When Jonathan Greenblatt took the top job at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in July 2015, Donald Trump was an outside candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and a favorite punch line of TV pundits.
The Bible instructs every Jewish king that he must have one book with him all the time: the Torah.
OK, I’ll come clean: I voted for Donald J. Trump. More accurately, I voted against Hillary Clinton.
For the past two years, “Racist Trump” and “Crooked Hillary” became convenient scapegoats for us to fight over.
We are living in the aftermath of a 21st-century election that divided this nation by class, ethnicity, geography and culture.
To my dearest children,
I am disgusted — as a law professor, an attorney, a father of daughters, and as a rabbi — by the abuse of women that marks this election cycle.
First there was the taco bowl.
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