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Shmuel Klatzkin

Shmuel Klatzkin

Shmuel Klatzkin is a rabbi who previously served as senior editor at the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and writes and teaches extensively.
by | Jan 30, 2021

Long before I became acquainted with Saul Alinsky and his tactics, I had read Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion….

by | Jan 28, 2021

On Tuesday, 45 senators stood up to declare the impeachment proceedings against someone not holding office to be unconstitutional. No…

by | Jan 23, 2021

Last week in his morning newsletter, American Spectator writer Daniel J. Flynn summed up the Trump years in a single…

by | Jan 21, 2021

Trying an ex-president before the Senate rather than in a court of law is not only unconstitutional, it is a…

by | Jan 16, 2021

Professor Marvin Fox once said to a graduate philosophy class, “God doesn’t command us to breathe.” His point was that…

by | Jan 12, 2021

The videos and photos that emerged from the Capitol invasion looked like an alcohol-powered high school gang prank that spontaneously…

by | Jan 2, 2021

The Declaration of Independence avoided word games. The source of real political power is “Nature and Nature’s God,” thereby uniting…

by | Dec 26, 2020

In an amusing and insightful article this week on JNS.org entitled “The upside of defeat,” Ruth Blum noted wryly how…

by | Dec 19, 2020

The political philosopher Leo Strauss spoke of what he called “the always pressing question … the political question par excellence,…

by | Dec 13, 2020

When the revolution broke out in France, it was not guided by a sense of restoring liberties that had been…

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