Results for “Talmud”

Seeing Through the Eyes of a Traveling Truth-Teller

Jonathan Kirsch, Jewish Journal, October 28, 2021

As we find out in his new book, “The Will to See: Dispatches From a World of Misery and Hope”, Lévy has put himself in harm’s way in the dangerous and troubled places that he writes about, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine.

Eric Zemmour’s Desecration of the Name

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 25, 2021

Already, the candidate’s violations of French Jewish moral values are perilous and obscene.

Israel

Unfailingly present whenever Israel is in danger, Bernard-Henri Lévy has rolled up his sleeves since the 1970s to find peaceful solutions. But when the philosopher thinks about Israel, he is also thinking about the entire world. And when he becomes involved in Bosnia, Georgia, Sudan, Sri Lanka, or Afghanistan that involvement reflects his thinking about Israel. The post-Holocaust principle of “Never Again” inhabits his words and deeds with respect to Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

The Genius of Judaism and Bernard-Henri Lévy

Adam Kirsch, Tablet, January 20, 2017

The morally minded French public intellectual applies 21st-century chutzpah to our radical age.

The Genius of Judaism

Published in January 2017

“The Genius of Judaism” is a breathtaking new vision and understanding of what it means to be a Jew. Lévy’s most passionate book, and in many ways his most personal, is a great, profound, and hypnotic intellectual reckoning by one of the keenest and most insightful writers in the world.

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