An interview with David Stern on the many physical forms of the Jewish Bible, from parchment scroll to electronic tablet.
We have never met this Mendele before, but he expects us to trust him, appreciate his wit, catch his references, and share his attitudes.
We have never met this Mendele before, but he expects us to trust him, appreciate his wit, catch his references, and share his attitudes.
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Strange Miracle
When Vice President Pence spoke in Jerusalem, he was tapping into a long tradition. . .
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Not of This World
In writing his first book for young readers, Aharon Appelfeld seems to have split himself and his life story between the two title characters: resourceful Adam, a boy of the land whose knowledge of the forest keeps them safe and fed, and bookish Thomas, a doubter in both faith and his own abilities.
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Black Money
Terrorism is not cheap. Find a way of taking terrorists’ money, the logic would seem to dictate, and you may have a way of shutting them down.
The Last Word
I was born with the State, in 5708. The heroic narrative of Israel, miraculously risen from the ashes, was planted in my marrow.
From Shabbtai at Seventy by Stuart Schoffman | Spring 2018
When the French novelist Patrick Modiano was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014, he was invested “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”
