Daniel Schwartz

Dec 16, 2024 | arcmag.org | Daniel Schwartz

Since the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, has been either venerated as a folk hero or disparaged as a left-wing crank, a symptom of the rising violence infecting the American political system. But such polarized responses misread Thompson’s death as a simple case of heroic populism or left-wing blood thirst. Mangione, a computer scientist from a wealthy family, and a man with no history of politicized bloodthirst, fits neither stereotype.

Jul 15, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Daniel Schwartz |Joshua Barton

Ayin Press 309 pp., $22.95 Shaul Magid is one of the most wide-ranging, provocative, and prolific scholars of Hasidism and modern Jewish thought at work today. He is also a leading voice of the American Jewish left. A recent widely read New York Times article about the anti-Zionism and diasporism among young Jews leads with an account of the launch party for his new book of essays, The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance.

Jun 16, 2024 | sapirjournal.org | Daniel Schwartz

Why do the Jews still exist? Published on June 16, 2024 The English word “resilience,” from the Latin resilire, literally means “to rebound.” For most of its 400-year history, the term was understood as a property of an object. The resilience of a material was determined by its ability to bounce back under stress and resume its original form or shape.

Apr 17, 2023 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Daniel Schwartz |Kate Elinsky |Moshe Rosman |Shai Secunda

“Only a short ride away, yet seemingly centuries back in time, is a Hassidic ‘shtetl,’ where the orthodox Jewish population still tries to live as it did before the Holocaust.” So claimed USA Bike Tours in a description last year of its guided tour “The Delights of Brooklyn,” describing the Satmar community of Williamsburg.