Elliot Jager's Blog On Jewish Civilization

Dear friends, Israelis will be voting for the 25th Knesset on Tuesday, November 1. This will be our fifth election in about 2½ years. All ha...

In an erev Shabbat email, a friend in metro-NY commented that he was surprised that al-Qaida’s 9/11/2001 attack on the US homeland had not b...

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 ...