Category: Activists

Today’s One-Liner (#308)

We boast that we are the descendants of the Prophets, but we are really the descendants of the Jews who stoned the Prophets. –Amos Oz, in Robert Alter, Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon

Riveting

It’s good for me to be the citizen of a state in which there are eight and a half million prime ministers, eight and a half million prophets, and eight and a half million messiahs….

Clarity

One ought to be clear about at least a few matters — war, capital killing, aborting the unborn!  Isaiah invites such clarity, and in a sense, leaves to us the conclusions, the details, the issues. …

Just Taking Care of the Kulaks

“All these words had their effect on me too. I was only a girl—and during meetings and special briefings, from films, books, articles, and radio broadcasts, from Stalin himself, I kept hearing one and the…

Today’s One-Liner (#289)

While I thought that there was some element of madness in her projects, I recall that after having seen her I was even more convinced than before that she was some sort of saint.  –Simone…

Today’s One-Liner (#280)

After [Elie Wiesel’s] death on July 2, 2016, the Holocaust scholar Michael Berenbaum praised him as an “heir of Jeremiah with his message of rebuke but also of Isaiah with his words of consolation.” –Joseph…

Love Is the Way

To love with understanding and without understanding.  To love blindly, and to folly.  To see only what is lovable.  To think only on these things.  To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather…

The Basics

A strong pro-life apologist, [Charlie] Kirk spoke with numerous college students who had been thoroughly versed in the notion of being “pro-choice.” He stripped the argument down to its basics. “Why should you have the…