May 18, 2020
Job’s story is familiar. He is prosperous, pious, and patriarchal. But Satan persuades God to test him by taking away family and fortune.
Jan 4, 2017
Is it ironic, or impolitic, that Chuck Schumer the new Democratic Senate leader, and Bernie Sanders, who made such a dramatic run on the left for the presidency, grew up within a mile of each other?
Jun 16, 2014
It has been many decades since I first read Sinclair Lewis’ brilliant but enigmatic work, "Elmer Gantry." Recently, it has been released once again by the Library of America in a new edition, so I wondered if it would still have the impact of a wallop as it did then. I decided to find out.
May 8, 2014
I have just learned that Natalie Portman is making her directorial debut with a movie based on Amos Oz’s magnum opus, "A Tale of Love and Darkness." It is quite an undertaking many people are looking forward to seeing what she does with it.
May 1, 2014
So, finally, after long deliberation, retirement at age 86. Free at last! Free at last! Now what? Why, you might ask, did I wait so long?
Apr 18, 2014
A grand gesture on the part of Netanyahu would help restore a renewed search for a two-state solution. Abbas would have to do the same.
Mar 19, 2014
Why wasn't Bernard Malamud more popular and widely read in his lifetime?