On June 7, 1967 a troop of Israeli soldiers entered the Old City of Jerusalem. It was the third day of war. For the first time in nineteen years, Jews were standing before the Kotel, or Western Wall. Their victory was transmitted succinctly by radio: “Har ha-Bayt be-Yadenu”. “The Temple Mount is in our hands.”
This [...]
The proposed boycott of Israel is on purely ideological grounds. I suggested in a recent post that this is not only a destructive mode of disapproval, but indicative of a quite obvious undercurrent of antisemitic attitudes popular among the hard left. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the world, and in another G8 nation, there is something wholly [...]
Dear Peace Activists,
On June 8, 2007, you will be rallying your good hearts out in Rome for an end to the “illegal military occupation of”–what was it again?–oh, “Gaza, the Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem.” Gaza? Need I, neither expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict nor historian, remind you that Israel left the Gaza strip [...]
What is it with these British academics and their moral posturing? In the face of the current boycott threat of their Israeli colleagues, I’d like to draw some attention to a positive example being set in, of all places, Italy.
Yesterday the Italian journalist Magdi Allam visited the synagogue of Rome to kibbitz—about Israel. What [...]
What is it about Harold Bloom that gets people all worked up? Well, for one, there is almost no way to remain indifferent to a man who writes, “If Yahweh is a man of war, Allah is a suicide bomber.” One would like to think Bloom is being provocative with this phrase, despite his repeated [...]
Let me share a secret with you. Whenever my fancy aches and my imagination begins to work overtime, I begin to wonder just what God is doing all the way up there in heaven beyond the recesses of our wildest dreams. Is he dusting the clouds, getting rid of the stale crumbs between the planets [...]
Spanglish, Ilan Stavans argues, is the linguistic result of an “encounter of the two weltanshauungs, Anglo-Saxon and Hispanic”. In other words, the logical outcome of a collision between two imperial supercultures. He sets the date at 1492 (date of dates!) and for good reason. Spanglish is a New World tongue concocted from two old world [...]
Our terrible future has just arrived.
The telephone now rings ominously
As we answer, scanning briefly a sky
Of asphalt gray, frightened of what we seek.
The air outside seems somehow to have died
While claustrophobic clouds conceal the week.
Pitifully our fingers indicate
Who is responsible, who is to blame.
Decisions become actions: a face, name,
Age or town of birth will at [...]
Everyone’s mother has some tidbit of wisdom that stays with them throughout their adult life. Here’s mine: when a person dies, an entire library dies with them. Therefore, it stands to reason that when a bookstore dies, an entire fleet of readers dies with it.
The Gotham Book Mart was, by most accounts, an ordinary bookshop [...]
Dopo il debutto e il successo del post del nostro amico Marc Alan Coen, No heaven for Homosexuals, Martha’s Version ha pensato di assegnargli una rubrica personale. THE NEWYORKERS sarà la pagina (visibile cliccando in alto nella barra sotto Martha’s Version) dove potrete trovare nuovi interessanti argomenti Italo-Americani in lingua inglese affidati alla penna e alla mente di uno scrittore [...]
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