Elliot Jager's Blog On Jewish Civilization

Do not Look for a Silver Lining. The November 1 Israeli Knesset election results are dispiriting for moderates and centrists. It is a lonely...

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...