Norman Podhoretz

Sep 24, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Norman Podhoretz

Review By – September 24, 2024 The title of Elliot Cosgrove’s new book comes from the Book of Esther. When Haman’s persecution of the Jews is revealed, Mordecai calls on Esther to rise to the occasion and use her power ​“for such a time as this.” These words were perhaps unconsciously echoed by a friend of Rabbi Cosgrove shortly after the brutal Hamas attack on October 7th, 2023, when she expressed the need for Rabbi Cosgrove to show up for all those in his congregation and beyond.

Sep 13, 2024 | commentary.org | Joseph Epstein |Norman Podhoretz

Apedant, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is “a person who is too concerned with small details or rules especially when learning or teaching.” For Webster’s Dictionary,he is “someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter.” For the Cambridge Dictionary, to be pedantic is to care “too much about unimportant rules or details and not enough about...

Mar 20, 2024 | archive.nytimes.com | Norman Podhoretz

February 3, 1974 Now, Instant ZionismBy NORMAN PODHORETZver since October, 1973, with the outbreak of the Yom Kippur war, it has become clearer and clearer that something new has happened to the Jews of America; they have all been converted to Zionism.

Jan 16, 2024 | sdjewishworld.com | Norman Podhoretz

Norman Podhoretz (Photo: Wikipedia)Norman Podhoretz was born in Brooklyn on January 16, 1930, to Julius Podhoretz and his wife Helen Woliner, Jewish immigrants from Poland. He had a brilliant academic career, skipping two grades and graduating third in his high school class. He attended Columbia University with a full Pulitzer Scholarship, earning a BA in English literature and concurrently studied Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Dec 6, 2023 | mosaicmagazine.com | Elliott Abrams |Norman Podhoretz |Jonathan Silver

Observation Elliott Abrams, Norman Podhoretz and Jonathan Silver Print Email Kindle When he died on November 29, 2023, Henry Kissinger had been one of the dominant voices in American foreign policy and global politics for half a century. A Jewish immigrant to the United States, Kissinger served in the U.S. Army and on the faculty of Harvard, and then went on to a consequential career in public service. He was the national security advisor and then the secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford...