Jonathan Blake

2 months ago | miamiherald.com | Jonathan Blake |Joe Mathews

As Los Angeles burned, firefighters from near and far rushed to our city. Crews from all over California; from Texas, Oregon, Arizona, tribal reservations and Mexico and Canada (despite the U.S. tariff threats) joined the fight against the blazes. Even embattled Ukraine offered help.

2 months ago | latimes.com | Jonathan Blake |Joe Mathews

As Los Angeles burned, firefighters from near and far rushed to our city. from all over California; from Texas, Oregon, Arizona, reservations and (despite the U.S. tariff threats) joined the fight against the blazes. Even embattled offered help.

Oct 15, 2024 | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Jonathan Blake

These remarks were delivered as a sermon on the morning of Yom Kippur, October 12th, 2024, at Westchester Reform Temple, Scarsdale, New York. Never in my life have these Days of Awe so lived up to the literal meaning of their name:  ימים נוראים, Yamim Nora’im, “Terrible days.”  Since I began composing these remarks, the war, still convulsing Gaza, has spread to Lebanon and deep into the heart of Israel. As for our hearts, there too has lodged an ugly and unhealed wound called October 7th.

Oct 14, 2024 | qoshe.com | Jonathan Blake

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Jul 30, 2024 | noemamag.com | Jonathan Blake

Credits Jonathan S. Blake is an associate editor of Noema Magazine and an associate director at the Berggruen Institute. The weird thing about growing up in oil country was that I had no idea I was growing up in oil country. I thought we lived in Hollywood. Sure, Culver City didn’t have the glitz and glamor of the parts of town where the movie stars lived and partied; it was a film-industrial suburb, where they went to work.