Scapegoats
"If the attacker broke down the door, I would throw myself on top of him and buy the others some time."
Include Me Out
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures seems to have had one goal for its exhibit about the Jews who created Hollywood: make the angry letters stop.
A Good Golus
“Well,” he said, “this is a good little golus you’ve got here.”
Atlas Schlepped
Ayn Rand imagined that her romantic prose soared, but it barely schlepped along.
Desire and Power: Adam and Eve in Genesis 1–3
What did Eve really want and what did Adam need?
Letters, Fall 2024
Statement on Anti-Israelism and Academic Jewish Studies; Invisible Truth; Union Seders; and Notes on Camp
Like a Surgeon with a Scalpel, an Archaeologist with a Spade
David Weiss Halivni once rescued a scrap from a page of the Shulchan Arukh from the sandwich paper of a Nazi guard. His whole life turned out to be about rescuing texts.
Lion of Judah
Twenty years ago, Matisyahu rocked the musical world with hit reggae songs that sometimes broke into Hasidic niggunim. He’s still rocking but it's not the same.
October 7: The Return of History
If we knew anything at all about Jewish—and even recent Israeli—history, why were we so surprised on October 7?
October 7: Trials of Zion, Memories of Diaspora
The instinctive return to diaspora history reflects the profound trauma of October 7, but what does it miss and what does it get right?