Posts
The Poems and Rivers of Jerusalem
“There are days when everything in Jerusalem is sails and sails . . . the flags, the tallitot, the kapotot.”
Mourner in Zion
Dara Horn reviews Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s new memoir.
Crime Scene with a View
How the source of Nazi evil became, for a moment, a stage for a Jewish refugee’s audacity.
Purim Torah
Why did medieval Jews reinvent the Purim story?
Mordechai, Esther, and her Father’s House
The meaning of Mordechai's mussar in the Megillah
Yiddish Ghosts of Purim Past
The hero of two classic Purim plays isn't Mordechai or Esther
“A Chabad Hasid in His Own Special Way”
The surprising life of the third president of Israel.
Everybody Loves Dreyfus
It is hard to make an antisemite a sympathetic character, but a recent film by Roman Polanski does just that.
The Return of Ruth
Stuart Halpern on the many returns of Ruth.
Australian Elections: Jews on the Precipice
Australia's Jewish citizens are facing unprecedented fear and uncertainty in the lead up to their national elections.