Gordon Haber writes about religion and culture in addition to editing the CANVAS Compendium, a newsletter on Jewish arts and culture. He does not live in Brooklyn.
Gordon Haber
By Gordon Haber
-
Culture The Kosher Contender
Professional athletes lead interesting lives. Yuri Foreman’s life has been really interesting. Foreman was born in 1980 in the Soviet Union and started his boxing training at 7 years old. He kept it up when his family immigrated to Israel in 1991, eventually winning three national championships. To further his career, Foreman came to the…
-
Books Six Takes on God
God According to God: A Physicist Proves We’ve Been Wrong About God All Along By Gerald L. Schroeder HarperOne, 256 pages, $25.99. The Evolution of God By Robert Wright Little, Brown and Company, 567 pages, $25.99. Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate By Terry Eagleton Yale University Press, 200 pages, $25.00. Saving…
-
Culture High-Tech and Haimish
Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America By Jeffrey Shandler New York University Press, 341 pages, $75.00. Recently, in pursuit of a story about Christians who have become interested in Judaism, I stumbled across QualityLifeNow, an outreach program organized by a pair of genial Lubavitcher Hasidim. Every Wednesday evening in midtown Manhattan, these…
-
Culture What’s Working for Woody?
There is no talking about this Woody Allen movie without talking about Woody. But before I get into that, I’d rather assert how much I admire him — for his achievements, of course, and for how, at the relatively advanced age of 73, he is still making interesting movies. Like Philip Roth, his rough contemporary,…
-
Culture Out of This Life
As a young man, the Coney Island-reared Donald Margulies worked a day job as a graphic artist for years, while writing plays on the side. His big break came in 1991 with “Sight Unseen,” a play about a successful and, perhaps morally compromised, artist. Other notable plays by Margulies include “The Loman Family Picnic” (1993)…
-
Culture David, My David
When you consider all the genealogies, digressions and picayune laws cluttering the pages of the Hebrew Bible, it’s no wonder that secular types are reluctant to read it. (The same probably goes for some religious types, although they may be less inclined to admit it.) Nevertheless, like Proust or exercise, the Bible rewards the diligent….
-
Culture Chosen, Us?
The Jews as a Chosen People By S. Leyla Gurkan Routledge, 246 pages, $140.00. The Chosen: The History of an Idea, the Anatomy of an Obsession By Avi Beker Palgrave Macmillan, 256 pages, $35.00. Who Are the Real Chosen People? By Reuven Firestone Skylight Paths Publishing, 158 pages, $21.99. Here’s an obvious statement: The doctrine…
-
Culture Armageddon in Suburbia
Question: What do evangelical Christians and credit-default swaps have in common? Answer: They both wrecked the country, but few understand exactly how they did it. All right, that’s an exaggeration. America will survive the current recession. And despite the influence of evangelicals, we do not live in One Nation Under Jesus. Of course, evangelical Christians…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Music For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction
- 2
Culture They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
- 3
News RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Israel has a decade of lessons to offer.
- 4
Film & TV Why ‘The Brutalist’ resonated so deeply with me
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture The crucial Bob Dylan question that ‘A Complete Unknown’ fails to answer
-
Opinion My favorite Jewish Christmas tradition: do a mitzvah for children in need
-
Fast Forward US ambassador to Israel calls Gaza famine warning ‘inaccurate,’ prompting review
-
News RFK Jr. wants fluoride out of drinking water. Israel has a decade of lessons to offer.
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
