The One and the Many
A popular new book deals with differences between the world's religions, but misses the mark in several of them.
Trilling, Babel, and the Rabbis
Part of Trilling's mystique came from the way he seemed "to be a Jew and yet not Jewish."
When Eve Ate the Etrog: A Passage from Tsena-Urena
There was once a custom for a pregnant woman to bite off the tip of the etrog at the end of Sukkot. This excerpt includes the text of a Yiddish prayer, or tkhine, that the pregnant woman is instructed to recite based on an interpretation of Genesis 3:6.
All the Good Things of Spain
The greatest Hebrew poet gets the English bio he deserves.
Animal Foible
The author of Life of Pi trivializes the Holocaust.
Friends of Zion
Getting by with a little help from our friends.
Going Public
The Jewish Jane Austen, or better?
Gut Shabbes
Upmanship & Downmanship
I, Terrorist
Whither the great anti-American novel?
Letters, Summer 2010
Rosenfeld and the Jewish Review of Books, No Jewish Narnia, The Prayers of Others, and More