Of the estimated 15.7 Jewish people in the world, some 7.2 million live in Israel and 6.3 million in the United States. In the U.S., the geography of the Jewish people is shifting. Increasingly, writes Joel Kotkin at Sapir, Jews are headed south, to places long considered to be bastions of Christianity. One reason: it’s a more welcoming, safer environment.
We first visited the United Kingdom in 1983. We returned in 2012, the first of seven visits. And one thing we’ve clearly seen is that the country is changing, and fairly rapidly. And it’s not only the U.K. Ross Clark at The Spectator says that the Europe of Americans’ imaginations no longer exists.
Madeleine Rowley at The Free Press has more on the famous “throwing gold bars off the Titanic,” story, in which an EPA official was filmed while he was laughing about how much movie was being shoved out the door before Administrations changed. A fund was included in the Inflation Reduction Act to reduce greenhouse gases while revitalizing communities that had been historically left behind. But the funds landed in very different places. Regardless of what you think of Elon Musk, this is worse than outrageous.
More Good Reads
British Stuff
The last days of Eric Liddell – Bethel McGrew at The Critic Magazine.
American Stuff
The Jefferson Bible – Michael Aubrecht at Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
Lincoln Goes to Hollywood – Tom Elmore at Emerging Civil War.
250 Years Ago: The Boston Massacre Oration: March 6, 1775 – Emerging Revolutionary War Era.
Life and Culture
“Ordo Amoris” and ending Burnout Culture – Dennis Uhlman at Front Porch Republic.
An Art Form Dies – Andrew Klavan at The New Jerusalem.
The depletion of culture – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at The New Criterion.
Faith
The Fractals Declare the Glory of God – Spencer Klavan at The New Jerusalem.
“On the Incarnation” & the Fresh Breath of Style – Michael De Sapio at The Imaginative Conservative.
Realism and Resurrection – Seth Lewis.
On “Middle” Evangelicalism – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.
“Virtues Gone Mad”: When Christian Ideals Mutate – Jonathan Threlfall.
Poetry
How Goes a Soul – J.A. Cooper at An Unexpected Journal.
Lent with Van Gogh, Part 1 – Megan Willome at Poetry for Life.
Ashes – Kelly Belmonte at Kelly’s Scribbles.
Dalliance – Chris Wheeler at Rabbit Room Poetry.
"Grief," poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
News Media
Five Key Insights into Americans’ Views of the News Media – Megan Brenan and Lydia Saad at Gallup News.
TV Stars Who No Longer Shine – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.
Stravinsky: Suite Italienne – Anastasia Kobelinka & Luka Okros
Painting: The Reader, oil on canvas by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926).
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