P. David Hornik
JERUSALEM — I can recall back at the time of my aliyah (immigration to Israel), around twenty years ago, being thrilled by caustically Zionist writings by the likes of Hillel Halkin, the prominent American Israeli writer-translator, or A. B. Yehoshua,…
Taking Sex Differences Seriously by Steven E. Rhoads (Encounter Books, 374 pages, $27.95) IN AN EXPERIMENT DONE in the mid-1990s, a researcher asked fifty sexually active college students to react to the statement: “Even if I think I don’t want…
In the new novel Bliss by the Israeli writer Ronit Matalon (Metropolitan Books, trans. Jessica Cohen), there’s a passage that stayed with me like a pesky tune. Sarah is a young woman with a small child who wants to divorce…
“Experts fear ‘dirty bomb’ attack in U.S., Europe.” Thus spake a story featured Sunday in the Los Angeles Times and headlined on Yahoo News, where I spotted it. While a dirty bomb “would not cause the death and destruction of…
JERUSALEM — “David, do you know what the rules are here?” “No.” “You’ve never been on the Mount before?” “No.” “David: No praying. No ululating. No rending your clothes.” The cop, a strange mix of friendly, cagy, and worried, stared…
JERUSALEM — While I was spending Friday evening pleasantly with a few guests, something not so pleasant happened just down the street from me. George Khoury, a 22-year-old student of economics and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem…
JERUSALEM — Gay marriage means more children being adopted by gay couples. It means more children who otherwise would have been raised by a mother and a father will instead be raised by two mothers or two fathers. That point…
JERUSALEM — I turn on CNN, and I see people being grilled — Bush and Blair. What did you know, and when did you know it? If you had known then what you know now, would you have done what…
JERUSALEM — It was, not surprisingly, while taking a walk — when most realizations occur — that I finally understood something about Count Basie that I’d been trying to understand for close to thirty years: his playing was pure nuance….
“We see our brothers in Palestine being killed and tortured.… We see Israel attacking sacred Christian and Muslim places in Palestine.… They try to kill the principles of religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and…
