It’s Complicated
Isaiah Berlin's influential liberalism is partly explained by his Zionism.
Letters, Fall 2012
Much Ado About Nothing, Borges' Aleph, Herzl's Tel Aviv, What would Kany Say?
No Greater Love
The Israeli music scene is bringing together world-class Israeli jazz and classic Sephardic liturgical music. Voilà!: the jazz piyyut.
Poets of the Tribe
The story of 12 Hebrew poets—in America.
Politics and Anti-Politics
Michael Walzer asks new questions of the biblical text, the same sorts of questions we often ask of Locke or Voltaire.
Pro-Creation
Economist Bryan Caplan thinks parents “overcharge” themselves when it comes to investing in their children. Glückel of Hameln knew better.
Remembering the Forgotten
Historian Bernard Wasserstein narrates Jewish life in Europe between the world wars.
Spinoza in Shtreimels: An Underground Seminar
A professor and three Hasidim walk into a bar—to study philosophy. True story.
Spy vs. Spy
Beginning in 1940 the French and the Zionists had a common enemy—the British.
Tough Bananas
A rags-to-riches tale with a machete-swinging Jewish hero.