David P. Goldman

The following essay appears this morning on the First Thoughts blog.Extract:Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights commemorating the miraculous restoration of the Temple following the Hasmonean expulsion of the Greek occupiers from Jerusalem in 165 B.C., began this year on Friday evening, the beginning of . . . . Continue Reading »

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights commemorating the miraculous restoration of the Temple following the Hasmonean expulsion of the Greek occupiers from Jerusalem in 165 B.C., began this year on Friday evening, the beginning of the Sabbath… . Continue Reading »

Over at the Inner Workings blog I analyze employment vs. inventory trends, taking off from an analysis by Joe Lavorgna, the chief economist at Deutsche Bank in New York. As we debated last week on Larry Kudlow’s TV show, Joe believes that inventory rebuilding will be associated with . . . . Continue Reading »

Britain’s Supreme Court chose the fifth day of the Jewish Feast of Chanukkah to rule that Jewish religious law is “racist,” and that the British Courts rather than Jewish religious authorities have the right to determine who is a Jew. The epigonoi of Alexander’s empire . . . . Continue Reading »

The Times of London reports:The Jewish Free School has lost the hard-fought case on the criteria for admissions to this sought-after school. The next step might be to challenge equality legislation itself, as the admissions criteria, found to be racially discriminating, was based on the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Germans may have buried their sense of humor, but humor cries out from the grave and will be avenged. A recent release from the Evangelical Press Service was intended to be serious, but it follows the classic three-part form of a joke, and has a wicked punch line. I translate:Christians and . . . . Continue Reading »

Maybe I’m getting old and grumpy, but I last night listened with barely-perceptible unease to the last “Marriage of Figaro” at the Metropolitan this season; this morning I had to play through half of the piano score to get ‘it out of my ears. And yet there was nothing really . . . . Continue Reading »

In two segments:http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1354763290&play=1 . . . . Continue Reading »

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Ross Douthat digs himself in deeper on the matter of Tariq Ramadan. Yesterday I took exception to his appalling comparison between St. Paul and Ramadan, whose terrorist ties prompted the Department of Homeland security to refuse him a visa to take up a faculty appointment at Notre Dame. He had . . . . Continue Reading »