Update of Publications So Far This Year

2014

1.      “When Chickens Come Home To Roost, Who Rules The Nest?” Family Security Matter (10 January 2014) http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/ publications/detail/when-chickens-come-home-to-roost-who-rules-the-nest

2.      “The Jewishness of Cervantes and Don Quixote” Retrievals, Preservations and Speculations (24 February 2014) http://simmsdownunder.blogspot.co.nz/2014/02/secret-and-obvious-crypto-jewish-writing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+RetrievalsPreservationsAndSpeculations+(Retrievals,+Preservations+and+Speculations) and on East European Jewish History (27 February 2914) at eejh@yahoogroups .com

3.       “Of Armies and Libraries: The End of Western Civilization” Family Security Matters (27 February 2014) online at http://www.familysecuritymatter.orgpublications/detail/of-armies-and-libraries-the-end-of-western-civilization; reproduced on Ruthfully Yours at http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/

4.      “Two ‘Soldiers of God’ Go Ballistic in the Courtroom” Family Security Matters (27 February 2014)

http://www.familysecuritymatter.org/publications/detail/two-soldiers-of-god-go-ballistic-in-the-courtroom.

5.      “Provocations and Evocations: A Second Crimean War” Family Security Matters (15 March 2014) http://www.familysecuritymatter.org/publications/detail/provocations-and-evocations-a-second-crimean-war.

6.      “Getting Down Under Downunder: A Call for Separation of Powers” Family Security Matters  (22 April 2014)  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/getting-down-under-downunder-a-call-for-separation-of-powers

7.       “Taking Dreyfus’s Name in Vain Again” Family Security Matters (15 May 2014) http://www. familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/print/taking-dreyfuss-name-in-vain-again

8.      “Confronting Anti-Semitism, Part I: Anti-Semitism as a Mental Aberration, or Moral Catachresis”  Retrievals, Preservations and Speculations. (22 April 2014) online at http://simmsdownunder. blogspot.com/2014_04_01_archive.html; and reprinted in EEJH 19 April 2014)

9.       “Confronting Anti-Semitism, Part II: Components of the Phenomenon”  Retrievals, Preservations and Speculations  (14 May 2014) online at http://simmsdownunder.blogspot.com/ 2014_04_01_ archive.html; and  reprinted in EEJH (Saturday, 17 May 2014)

10.   “A Courageous Jew for our Time” Psychohistory News 33:2 (Spring 2014) pp. 7-8.

11.   “Confronting Anti-Semitism, Part III: Breaking the Surface and Searching for the Hidden Text”  Retrievals, Preservations and Speculations  (25 May 2014) online at http://simmsdownunder. blogspot.com/ 2014_04_01_ archive.html; reprinted on EEJH (26 May 2014)

12.   ”When Young People Kill Young People, Should We Care?” Family Security Matters  (30 May 2014)  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/when-young-people-kill-young-people-should-we-care

13.   “André Suarès, un juif ambigu: du dilemme historique des marranes modernes” pp. 279-314 in Jacques Ehrenfreund et Jean-Philippe Schreiber, eds., Les Marranismes de la religiosité cachée à la société ouverte.  Paris : Editions Demopolis, 2014.

14.   « Iggeret ha-Kodesh: The Principles of Rabbinical Love in terms of Creativity, Morality and Mysticism » Literature & Aesthetics 23 :2 (2013 [2014]) 54-96.

15.   “Abraham Catulle Mendès: The Poet for whom the String Snaps” Mentalities/Mentalités 26:1 (2014) new online edition: http://mentalitiesjournal.com/

16.   “Words Needed to Male Sense of the World in 2014”  Family Security Matters  (19 July 2014)  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/wordss-needed-to-make-sense-of-the-world-in -2014

17.    “Killing Innocent Civilians in Gaza: Israel Falsely Accused of War Crimes” Family Security Matters (25 July 2014) http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/killing-innocent-civilians-in-gaza-israel-falsely-accused-of-war-crimes

new poem

Confusion grows like the grass in spring whenever

You ask me what I feel about our relationship

And what I mean is that the swaying weeds in the river

Entangle the propellers of our vessel and grip

Us to the shore but your intentions are quite other:

You want me to confess my wish to slip away

Unperceived, out of the night—don’t ask me why.

It’s like a piece of poetry that tries to smother

All its ideas under the weight of rhyme,

And its metre procrastinates, skips a beat,

And all the while, I hope my best endeavour

Will please you at least, darling, this one last time,

Since all the passions in my heart are incomplete

And yet are all I have to offer in this debate

Is something all too prosaic, with leaden feet.