Elliot Jager's Blog On Jewish Civilization

I’d meant to give Ernest Hemmingway (1898-1961) another shot. I read For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) in an edition I inherited from my mothe...

On December 8, 1941, the day after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, it was not self-evident that the US would enter the war in E...

The disagreements in Israel’s polity are mainly over ethos and values, not borders, security, faith, or economics. The forces of civility ...

The Supreme Court, whether in the US or Israel, should serve as the most enlightened and elitist branch of government -- as an explicit stop...

May 8th was Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) commemorating the Allied triumph over Nazism in 1945. It was also the beginning of the end of Win...