Jewish Review of Books

Are ancient hair coverings Jewish texts? According to a wide-ranging new anthology, yes.

Matti Friedman argues that Hannah Sensesh and her fellow WWII parachutists weren’t commandos as much as they were storytellers.

How bad is antisemitism? According to the protestations of a new book, maybe not too bad at all.

What ghosts haunted Muriel Spark?

John Updike's stories about Henry Bech were a chutzpadik, shape-shifting experiment in Jewish mimicry. But what did they reveal about their creator?

Why was it so important to a prominent haredi rabbi to tie himself up in speculative knots just to deny a library checkout list?

Verses flowed through his mind as easily as a boat on a waveless river. Why fight with an antisemite when you could rhyme him into shame?

Verses flowed through his mind as easily as a boat on a waveless river. Why fight with an antisemite when you could rhyme him into shame?

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