Letters
Letters
Last year, the Pew Internet and American Life Project estimated that 8 million American adults had created blogs. Although the number of specifically Jewish blogs is unconfirmed, those with knowledge of the blogosphere say the pool is substantial. Jewish blogs, or Web diaries, run the gamut from kosher cooking to Israeli advocacy. They include leftist rants, dating melodramas, rabbinic ruminations and secular musings from all corners of the globe.
This is how naive I am: I never understood why Primo Levi killed himself. I\’d long admired and devoured the works of the Italian chemist who wrote of his experiences surviving the Holocaust.
On Tuesday, at the indecent hour of 5:30 a.m., when some sleepy official reads off the nominations for the 78th Academy Awards, it\’s likely no one will follow the announcements more anxiously than filmmakers in 58 foreign countries.