https://www.jwire.com.au/ari-shavit-confusing-self-criticism-with-self-debasement-writes-isi-leibler/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Mon, 10 Mar 2014 03:32:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.jwire.com.au/ari-shavit-confusing-self-criticism-with-self-debasement-writes-isi-leibler/#comment-64521 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 03:32:48 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=40728#comment-64521 Perhaps Shavit’s success over the years, and his ‘reputation’, have wrought changes in him that not only allow him to write this unfortunate chapter, but motivate him to do so. What other explanation can there be? If he cares more for celebrated and good international reputation than he does for his writing, then his writing will diminish. That’s the end product of lack of honesty and sincerity. If on reading the narrative a chapter or piece stands out for its ‘clunkiness’, its sense of not belonging, that rings warning bells, indicating something is wrong – pity he and his editors didn’t pick up on that.
It’s more than a shame that he’s gone down this path.

]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/ari-shavit-confusing-self-criticism-with-self-debasement-writes-isi-leibler/#comment-63903 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:04:45 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=40728#comment-63903 Good piece…but more might have been made of the fact that Lod was an ancient biblical town inhabited by Jewish Scholars and Merchants from about 500 BCE to 70CE…vide: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/345947/Lod

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