Dara Horn’s new novel, Eternal Life, is out today. We caught up with her and asked her 18 questions.
Black hat chic: Shai Secunda's review of Shababnikim, the new television show about cool yeshiva students.
Bologna, 1857: A six-year old is taken from his Jewish family to be raised a Catholic. Why are we still talking about this case? An archbishop responds.
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Succession, Secession!
The notion of zera kodesh, “holy seed,” appears only twice in the Bible, both times in reference to the people of Israel as a whole. For Hasidim, however, it has a more restricted meaning.
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When I was 12, my parents bought me a gigantic Yiddish-Russian dictionary. Maybe this was their way of compensating for the fact that they had not told me I was Jewish until second grade, when I came home singing a Ukrainian ditty with the word “zhid.”
From Babel's Transcendent Mistakes by Jake Marmer | Winter 2018
Arthur Szyk may well be the only great Jewish artist whose work countless people recognize simply because they have attended a Passover Seder.





