Cynthia Ozick

You still have enough time to fix it.

You know, there's the last line of a short story by Cynthia Ozick that I love called An Education.

The main character says, "It seems to her unendurable that her education should go on and on and on." Well, the fact is, it does.

And I do believe that opening yourself up to what we call continuing education, uh, is part of what therapy is and part of what its great value is in this beautiful third act.

By contrast, liberal Jews tend to treat universal concerns as more important than those that personally concern them.

As writer Cynthia Ozick famously said, universalism is the ultimate Jewish parochialism." But as Jews in Michigan and elsewhere have come to learn in the three years since the October 7th Hamas-led Palestinian Arab terror attacks on Israeli communities incited an unprecedented increase in anti-Semitism, Al-Sayed's candidacy is not, strictly speaking, about voters' views about the Jewish state.

It's about their willingness to tolerate the mainstreaming of Jew hatred here in the United States.

So when Slotkin seeks to deny that there is such a thing as Jewish voters, she's signaling something very different from the fact that not all Jews cast votes solely on the basis of a candidate's views on Israel.

...

Bellow, Roth, Ozick.

Chabon.

Michael Chabon in the next generation.