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Praying with Moby Dick
Anchoring Melville's biblical undertow.
Lost Eminence
The legacy of twentieth-century Jewish artists is more unexpected than the Spanish Inquisition.
Davening with Tevye
"Tevye moved seamlessly from “our” to “my” and from a care of his loved ones to the glories of the mythic past."
Letters, Summer 2025
No Afikoman, No Problem; Demon Bowls; Fearless; and Extraterrestrial Exodus
Golden Ledgers
In the world's first Jewish public library, bearded scholars read side-by-side with bare-armed women.
Making Sense of War: A Rejoinder to Asaf Hazani
Can one understand war without talking about heroism?
Studying War: A Response to Matti Friedman
Viewing war as an anthropologist
The Cost of Immersion
What is the future of American Jewry's in a postethnic age?
Your Father Shoulders You: On Inheriting Paul Celan
Paul Celan raised his son in a home saturated by languages and haunted by unsayable things.
Visiting the Graves of the Righteous: Inns of Molten Blue
Graves of Tzaddikim hold many things—hopes, prayers, and sometimes even the deceased's body.