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
Of Spies and Centrifuges
Jay Solomon traces decades of spy games between the United States and Iran, a conflict, he writes, “played out covertly, in the shadows, and in ways most Americans never saw or comprehended.”
Islamic Jihad, Zionism, and Espionage in the Great War
A century ago, the Holy Land seems to have been full of European adventurers, archaeologists, would-be diplomats, and spies—sometimes all combined in the same person. Take, for instance, Max von Oppenheim . . .
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
A Dissonant Moses in Berlin and Paris
Schoenberg’s challenging opera is re-staged in 21st-century Europe.
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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