Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

May 16, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Reviel Netz |Akiva Schick |Gavriel D. Rosenfeld |Chloé Valdary

The Winter 2024 issue of the Jewish Review of Books included not one, but two essays on anti-Israelism (the term coined in Jonathan Karp’s trenchant piece). I am grateful—especially since its editor, Abraham Socher, remains skeptical. Antisemitism, he notes, was always plural, a set of ideas, practices, and attitudes that bear what Ludwig Wittgenstein called a family resemblance to each other: “The Pauline contempt . . . the hatred of the High Middle Ages . . .

Jul 9, 2023 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | David Wolpe |Elli Fischer |Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

In my final year at the Jewish Theological Seminary, we were assigned to take “Senior Homiletics.” Our teacher, Simon Greenberg, was the acknowledged dean of Conservative rabbis in his time. Greenberg, who was in his nineties, was at the end of a distinguished career. He had been the founding rabbi of the synagogue my father later presided over (Har Zion Temple in Philadelphia) and had been a mentor of my father’s, so to me he was a part of living Jewish history.

Mar 7, 2023 | thecounterfactualhistoryreview.blogspot.com | Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

I’m grateful to Larry Yudelson at Ben Yehuda Press for sending me a copy of Andrea D. Lobel’s and Mark Shainblum’s new anthology of Jewish alternate histories, Other Covenants.  I’m halfway through the book and I can already see that it’s full of clever and entertaining tales. Of the two-dozen+ stories in the collection, more than half have been written especially for the volume (some older tales are included as well).