Raphael Cohen-Almagor (Hull): Holocaust Denial is a Form of Hate Speech. A review of A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad by Robert S. Wistrich (and more). Michael Kinsely on how to think about Jewish bankers. The first chapter from Capitalism and the Jews by Jerry Z. Muller (and more and more and more). From FT, Tobias Buck on the rise of the capitalist kibbutz. From Chronicles of Love and Resentment, Eric Gans on Judeocentrism and the Jewish Question. From H-Net, a review of Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual by Jonathan Judaken. More and more on Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust by Hans Kundnani. A review of Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius (and more and more). A review of The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz. More and more and more and more and more on The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand. From Forward, the Obi-Wan Kenobi of 20th-century Jewish philosophy, Lithuanian-born French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, has grown in fame and stature since his death in 1995; and the Jewish value of understatement: An article on how simple beauty can outshine complex vulgarity. Fine Young Criminal: Eddy Portnoy on the story of a yeshiva boy who turned to the gang life and lived to write about it. An interview with Yisrael Campbell, comedian, Jewish convert. For Orthodox Jews, matchmaking and dating are more confusing than ever; is secularism to blame, feminism, or is it part of a greater crisis? Hey, Jew, Don’t Make It Bad: Does telling children they’re hated make them mishear lyrics and, eventually, horde Viagra?
