Shabbat Chazon: One Etrog, One People Today is Shabbat Chazon, the Shabbat immediately preceding Tisha B’Av, and I would like to speak about Sukkot. It may seem slightly premature to speak about etrogim this morning. Nevertheless, one of the Jewish controversies that has occupied me this week concerns precisely the etrog. In certain diasporist circles, a new idea appears to be circulating. Progressive Jewish communities, we are told, should seek alternatives to etrogim import

From Rupture to Repair People do not send telegrams anymore, which is a pity. So perhaps only people of a certain age can fully appreciate the joke about the Jewish telegram. Do you know the joke about the Jewish telegram? The Jewish telegram works like this: “Start worrying. Details to follow.” All right, it is a joke, but it also captures something wonderfully Jewish. Much has been said about Jews and anxiety, not least by Jewish psychoanalysts, who made quite a professio