Insiders and Outsiders
The Jewish sect that rejected cholent.
It Was Like This: Excerpts from an Academic Memoir
Scenes from Anita Shapira’s gripping memoir.
Letters, Fall 2022
Day School and State; An Apocryphal Footnote; Confirmed as Drowned, and more
Missing Notes
There was a time when Jewish artists set the tone for North African music, but now only echoes remain.
No Balm
A new book on talmudic medicine illustrates the ills of modern academia, argues Shai Secunda.
People of the Book World
"The Jewish market has become quite a good one,” a Knopf editor observed; even the “goy polloi” were buying, wrote another staffer.
Radically Enlightened Jews
Jonathan Israel is a minyan of modern revolutionaries.
The Blessings of Manasia
His father recited Modeh Ani every morning and ordered a set of tefillin from Mumbai. Unaware that they were meant to be worn and not merely kept, he put them away on a shelf.
The Most Important Word in the World
For a moment, a literary giant and talmudic genius sparred over the implications of a biblical phrase.
The Protocols of Neoliberalism
Baram’s characters are righteously indignant at the system and determined to bring it down.