Golden Apples
Meet Hyam Plutzik, the poet who wrote a major work—and then disappeared.
Israel on the Hudson
An ambitious, new three-volume work attempts to tell the story of New York's Jews from the days of Peter Stuyvesant to the present.
Jerusalem of the Balkans
In 1911, David Ben-Gurion spent several months in Salonica and declared that it was "the only Jewish labor city in the world." Now, because of an open-minded mayor and his nationalist opponents, this formerly Jewish city is experiencing a peculiar mix of Jewish memory and anti-Semitism.
Light Reading
Stoicism and the human heart.
Middle Position
An insider account reveals how personal relationships and rivalries often shape Washington's foreign policy.
New Beats for Old Brooklyn
Andy Statman started out as an unlikely prodigy: a New York Jewish kid playing bluegrass on the mandolin.
No Joke
Sigmund Freud loved Jewish jokes and for many years collected material for the study that would appear in 1905 as Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. An excerpt from Ruth Wisse's new book No Joke: Making Jewish Humor.
People of the Talmud: Since When? A Response and Rejoinder
Talya Fishman and Haym Soloveitchik exchange words on the tosafists.
Schechter’s Seminary
Solomon Schechter is remembered as the founder of Conservative Judaism—but who are his religious heirs?
The Gaon of Modernity
Was the Vilna Gaon a great defender of tradition or a radical modernizer?