JEWISH INTELLECTUALS AND JC: The Wall Street Journal has an op-ed about:

...an unusual event on a beautiful spring Sunday in New York. Writers, critics, filmmakers and scholars gathered at the Center for Jewish History to discuss the man whom Leon Wieseltier termed "the world's most famous ex-Jew."

...Messrs. Pinsky and Greenblatt both celebrated Jewish intellectual empowerment in the climate of Christianity, reveling in what Mr. Greenblatt termed a "post-colonial relationship to the culture that is ours." The panel generally had a tone of intellectual broad-mindedness and genial accommodation. That is, until the question-and-answer period began. [emphasis added]

By the time the discussion was over, "everyone was already looking at what had been laid bare: the big, crucified elephant in the middle of the room."

Read the whole thing.

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