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Hadeish Yameinu by David Gelernter

David Gelernter, a prominent victim of the Unabomber, is a Yale computer science professor who is also fluent in the history and practice of Judaism. An observant Jew, Gelernter just published Judaism: A Way of Being (Yale University Press). Partly an exploration of the religion’s core themes and partly a defense ...

To help its former editor-in-chief Norman Podhoretz roll out his new book, Why Are Jews Liberals?, Commentary magazine organized a “symposium” of six writers, including Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol and a Conservative rabbi, David Wolpe, to offer their takes on the question. (Podhoretz’s answer, in a nutshell, is that for millenia Jews’ greatest allies ...