Winter Issue!
Amazing articles by Cynthia Ozick, Adam Kirsch, Matti Friedman, and more!
- Eddy Portnoy
- Andrew Koss
- Yeshua G. B. Tolle
- Sonya Michel
- Allan Arkush
- Ilana Kurshan
- Seth Winberg
- Benjamin Balint
- Shai Secunda
- Mira Balberg
- Katharine Mullen
- Adam Kirsch
- Matti Friedman
- Sarah Rindner
- Yitz Landes
- Cynthia Ozick
- Abraham Socher
A Comic Megillah?
Megillat Esther has long balanced the comic and the graphic in its content and interpretations. A new Koren graphic novel takes the challenge a bit more literally.
A Tale of Two Cohens: Purim in Montreal
Lyon Cohen wrote and starred in Congregation Shaar HaShomayim's first Purim spiel in 1885--and then led the Montreal Jewish community for half-century. His grandson Leonard didn’t exactly follow his lead, but he does have a big grin in the cast photo of the 1947 Purim Spiel.
The Last Word
The algorithm is trying to tell me something, and if I could just figure out where I lost my kabbalistic decoder ring, I could probably figure it out.
- From Podcasts Filled with Straw
- by Abraham Socher
- Issue Winter 2026
Haman, Builder of Towers, Brother of Abraham?
A new book raises the possibility that interpretive motifs from within both Jewish and Islamic traditions might have led to the uniquely Islamic tradition that Abraham and Haman were brothers.
The Last Word
The algorithm is trying to tell me something, and if I could just figure out where I lost my kabbalistic decoder ring, I could probably figure it out.
- From Podcasts Filled with Straw
- by Abraham Socher
- Issue Winter 2026
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