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Alexandra EllThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Earlier this week, I spoke with someone I had known in another lifetime, back when I lived in South Korea. We have not met for two decades, yet across...
“The shoes are full of stones scattered in them.” The sentence landed with the dull thud of something that should not be possible and stopped me...
Some sentences look simple but smuggle in whole philosophies of life. Take what linguists call a counterfactual conditional: a sentence that talks...
Holocaust distortion rarely announces itself with the bluntness of denial; more often it appears in the form of casual statements, recycled clichés,...
With the arrival of Adar and Purim drawing near, kitchens across the Jewish world begin to fill with Hamantaschen. In this corner of Central Europe,...