THREE IMAGES, MANY QUESTIONS

By David Perlstein | June 5, 2020

A Minneapolis cop kneels on the neck of a black man, George Floyd. Peaceful protestors kneel on pavement. An unidentified young African-American woman carries an armload of bras out of Victoria’s Secret. How do we make sense of these images? Last Saturday, my friend Ira asked: Doesn’t Judaism have anything to offer about the racism…

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THE CLASH OF CULTURES

By David Perlstein | June 2, 2017

I often refer to Samuel Huntington’s 1996 book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. Huntington posited that the world is divided into religious and national entities that would be at odds with each other given the Soviet Union’s fall. The book has been criticized, but I believe it to be correct.…

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