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The Limits of Secularism

Isaiah Berlin didn't understand how the Chief Rabbi could have studied philosophy at Cambridge and Oxford and still have faith. "Isaiah," said Sacks, "if it helps, think of me as a lapsed heretic."Go Ahead, Buy that Train Set

A holiday season defense of material pleasures. Hanukkah (from “Notes on the Spring Holidays”)

In a world where each man must be of useand each thing useful, the rebellious Jewslight not one light but eight—not to see by but to look at.Hanukkah (from “Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays”)

Go swiftly in your chariot, my fellow Jew,you who are blessed with horses;and I will follow as best I can afoot,bringing with me perhaps a word or two.Speak your learned and witty discoursesand I will utter my word or two— not by might not by powerbut by Your Spirit, Lord.Happy Hanukkah, Marines!

There are few more illuminating tributes to Judah Maccabee than the American Jews who don the uniform of the United States Marines.Havel and the Jews

Rita Klimova, Havel's ambassador to the U.S., was a Jew who lived on Riverside Drive. But the connections among Israel, the Jews, and Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution went much deeper. (Interview by Marc Tracy)Blaming the Jews

It would be Jewish journalists, of course, who have come up with the smartest ways to package anti-Jewish sentiment for a U.S. audience in the presidential election season. Yehuda Halevi’s Death and the Cairo Genizah

Legend says the great 12th-century Spanish hymnist reached Eretz Yisrael but was killed at Jerusalem's city gate. Genizah documents suggest that the legend was based on fact.