Let's break down all distinctions: masculine/feminine; greek/jew; baptism/bris: it's like being in graduate school again!  And as a result everything is the same; everything is neutral.  But in the process identity--as shaped by a specific ...

The West--and englightenment Jews in particular--are scandalized by their particularity (as Podhoretz puts it, not that I regularly quote the former editor of Commentary).   Not only scandalized, but deeply embarrassed.  I agree with ...