Copyright 2012 Jewish Media Resources Thu, 17 May 2012 05:51:31 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jewish Media Resources :: Writings http://www.jewishmediaresources.com (Jewish Media Resources) webmaster@jewishmediaresources.com en-us http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1528/a-new-coalition-for-israel-it-not-just-about-us Fri, 18 May 2012 09:00:00 EST Over fifty years ago, I was playing checkers with my father, a"h, on a Sunday morning. The next oldest brother in our family line-up, not yet five years old, sat on my father's lap. Suddenly, he could not contain himself and shouted out, "Look, Daddy,... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1529/looking-for-win-win Fri, 11 May 2012 09:00:00 EST Eight or nine years ago, I received a visit from a kollel student in his late '20s. The young manyoung man in question had been one of the outstanding students in one of Israel's most prestigious yeshivos. Yet by the time he came to visit me, he was... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1530/negotiations-to-nowhere Thu, 10 May 2012 09:00:00 EST When evaluating the latest rounds of negotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany (P5 + 1) over Iran's nuclear program, there is one essential thing to know: Iran has no intention of giving up its... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1526/kedoshim-5772 Wed, 2 May 2012 09:00:00 EST CBS's Journalistic Malpractice Outside the precincts of academia, the anti-Israel vitriol that is now mainstream in Europe has been largely absent in America. At the outset of Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, for instance, many of Europe's leading... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1531/advice-for-romney Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:00:00 EST Having once written a column entitled, "Why Barack Obama will not be president," I am assiduously resisting any temptation to prognostication this electoral cycle. That is not to say, however, that I do not remain vitally interested in the outcome of the... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1525/acharei-mos-5772-self-confidence-vs-self-esteem Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:00:00 EST Self-Esteem vs. Self-Confidence The above title on a magazine piece caught my eye precisely because it is a distinction about which I have been thinking a great deal. I have written in the past about the damage wrought over the last forty years by... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1527/tazria-metzorah-5772-the-blue-model-and-torah Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:00:00 EST The "Blue Model" and Torah Jewry Walter Russell Mead describes, in his latest essay on the decline of the blue social model, how thirty years ago he viewed the modern welfare state as the summit of human achievement. Today, he rejoices that the blue... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1523/erev-pesach-5772-true-independence-are-these-not Fri, 6 Apr 2012 09:00:00 EST True Independence Rabbi Yaakov of Lissa famously asks in his commentary on the Haggadah, Ma'aseh Nissim: If someone were released from prison and subsequently imprisoned again, would he invite his cell mates to gather with him to celebrate the day of his... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1524/parashas-tzav-tragedy-in-toulouse-fairness-for Sat, 31 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST Tragedy in Toulouse Rabbeinu Bachye writes that Eisav is called a soneh of the Jewish people, while Yishmael is an oiyev. The difference between the two is that the former can sometimes show mercy, but not the latter. That cruelty, unmitigated by any... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1521/a-matter-of-trust Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST About one matter Israel and the United States surely agree: Neither want to see Iran with nuclear weapons. In his speech to AIPAC last week, President Obama explicitly rejected a strategy of containment versus a nuclear Iran because of the "near certain... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1520/the-loss-of-civic-virtue-and-its-consequences Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST Harvard economic historian Niall Ferguson notes that one of the striking features of the history of past civilizations is the "speed with which most of them collapsed, regardless of cause." The fall of the Roman Empire took only a few decades. No one... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1522/it-not-about-the-internet-it-about-us Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST Forget all analogies between internet today and TV of the 1950s and '60s. The battle led by gedolim in those decades, when no one could fully have seen how far the tame family fare of that era would degenerate, can only be described as prescient. But it... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1518/purim-in-contemporary-guise Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST "Since 1945, I was not as afraid as I am now. I am afraid because anti-Semitism, which I had thought belonged to the past, has somehow survived," Eli Wiesel intones at the beginning of a new documentary Unmasked Judeophobia. What follows is a 81-minute... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1517/ki-tzaveh-5772 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST First They Came for the Catholics The controversy over the Obama administration's issuance of regulations mandating employer provided health insurance coverage for contraceptives is as relevant to observant Jews as to Catholics. For one thing, the issue... http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1514/mishpatim-5772-tribute-to-rabbi-avraham-ginzberg Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:00:00 EST An Improbable Gift Because magazines like Mishpacha work with advance deadlines my friend Rabbi Aryeh Ginzberg's piece on Yerushalayim shel Ma'alah appeared last week, even though he was sitting shiva for his father Rabbi Avraham Ginzberg, the menahel of...