Brave New Bavli: Talmud in the Age of the iPad
The Talmud was hypertextual before we had the word. ArtScroll's new app is only the beginning.
Category Error
What is lost when the books of the Hebrew Bible are read as philosophy?
Friendly Fire: A Response and Rejoinder
Peter Berkowitz responds to Jeremy Rabkin.
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.