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Guide to a master reader’s works

By Rabbi David Wolpe
Published on January 26, 2012

In a moment of unwarranted despair, the young Keats wrote his epitaph: “Here lies one whose name is writ in water.” Yet creative geniuses achieve such immortality as human memory bestows. Those who exalt them disappear. The poet endures; the critic is destined to be forgotten.

Disraeli: The curious case of England’s Jewish prime minister

By Rabbi David Wolpe
Published on December 31, 2008


Disraeli: The curious case of England’s Jewish prime minister

By Rabbi David Wolpe
Published on December 25, 2008

Benjamin Disraeli was born Jewish, baptized as a boy but (mostly) considered himself to be Jewish. He famously proclaimed to Queen Victoria -- who began by hating him and ended adoring him -- that he was the "blank page" separating the Old and New Testaments.


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