Anti-Israelism has become a kind of cultural and political loyalty test that has almost nothing to do with the actual policy questions at stake. If the postwar liberal order is fragmenting, the story of Israel is a symptom of that fragmentation, not its cause.
An Open Letter to My Fellow Jews on Peoplehood, Memory and Israel
This, I think, is belonging. And belonging is always to play a part in something larger than oneself.
The strangest thing is the instability of standards 鈥� the peculiar way arithmetic shifts, the speed with which contradictions become irrelevant, the confidence with which certainty arrives before inquiry.
Having heard Rachel鈥檚 words, I have become once again astonished at their power, reawakened to their strangeness and to their potentially infinite value.
Rachel is a gifted woman who has been chosen to carry a burden. And in turn, she has chosen, by her own telling, to write and to speak about that burden.
It is made of humility, forged from the understanding that even with all our strengths, we desperately need one another.
Passover itself denotes transcendence. Leaving one鈥檚 limitations. Leaping beyond the ordinary.
On Purim, re-reading Persia, we stand at the intersection of the past and this very moment. May we merit not merely a temporary cessation of war, but true peace 鈥� the ultimate end of all conflict.
