Posts Tagged: Hillel Halkin
New York Times Readers Offer Vicious Responses to Articles by Israelis
In at least two recent cases, articles in The New York Times by Israeli authors were greeted by responses from Times readers who insisted that...
Reflections on Death, Mourning and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition
After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflections on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition, by Hillel Halkin; Princeton University Press, 2016; 232 pp. Is there any subject...
The New York Times’ Post-Holocaust Holocaust Obsession Comes at a Price
The New York Times is struggling to this day to try to make up for what its executive editor, Max Frankel, called its “staggering, staining failure”...
An Honest Evaluation of Zionist Pioneer Ze’ev Jabotinsky (REVIEW)
JNS.org - I confess that I came to Hillel Halkin's "Jabotinsky: A Life" with some suspicion. First, Daniel Gordis wrote a book about former...
Jabotinsky: A Life, by Hillel Halkin (REVIEW)
The new book by Hillel Halkin, "Jabotinsky: A Life" (Yale University Press) is unlike any other book I have ever read about a man I consider to...
Choosing Life in Israel, by P. David Hornik (REVIEW)
Choosing Life in Israel, by P. David Hornik (Ontario: Freedom Press, 2013). The first two words of the title Choosing Life in Israel, by P....
John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage (REVIEW)
John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage, by Ze'ev Maghen (Amazon.com, 2011). Gershom Scholem, the Leviathan of Jewish mysticism and influential professor at Hebrew...
