How I Got to be a Person Whose Whole Life is Lived in Cliches
The Rabbis inveigh against gossip. Since a lost reputation is almost as hard to recover as a lost life, they deem it equivalent to a capital crime. Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Broo...
26 Heinä 202411min
Therapy For The Jews
Have the Jews anything to offer the world today in their capacity as Jews? The remarkable plasticity and resilience of anti-semitism doesn’t answer my question about being a Jew: what the hell good i...
19 Heinä 202413min
The Deep and the Shallow
I like happy endings, where hopes long denied get fulfilled, where the apparent pointlessness of someone’s particular experience resolves itself into retrieved significance, where the lead character’s...
11 Heinä 20249min
Do Miracles Happen?
Occasionally something occurs that you or I might be tempted to call “a miracle.” But: what follows when you try to talk about a “miracle” that you think might have happened to you? Abigail L. Rose...
4 Heinä 202413min
Recognition
Of course, there are times when one needs to be alone, but not indefinitely. Even solitude has its touchstones of homecoming, of reunion – with memory, with aspiration, with nature and wild creatures....
27 Kesä 202410min
Who is the Suffering Servant?
If the Suffering Servant does not fit neatly into mainstream Jewish traditions about the messiah, who is he? Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of ...
20 Kesä 202414min
A Misremembered Woman
I found a book to read for the flight from Philadelphia to Ontario, California, this past week. It was about a woman named Sabina Spielrein. I’d never heard of her, but she’s an important figure in th...
13 Kesä 202415min
How Can I Tell If It’s God?
I knew the miracles could be regarded as chance happenings. Onlookers would take them that way. Academics don’t talk about miracles. But the string of personal history didn’t pull taut till I took th...
6 Kesä 202412min
