A Novel of Unbelief
Religion, faith, and the search for tenure at Harvard underpin a comic novel by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.
Appelfeld in Bloom
Israeli author Aharon Applefeld sifts through memories to understand the traumas of his past.
Bob Dylan: Messiah or Escape Artist?
“Who was or is Robert Zimmerman, called Bob Dylan?” Is he a Jew?
Cannon Fire Over Sarajevo and Sin in Ansbach: A Passage from Rabbi Jacob Emden’s 18th Century Memoir
Jacob Emden get a deserved, if belated, translation into English.
Crumb’s Genesis
Harvey Pekar's take on Robert Crumb's illustrated book Genesis.
Discrimination and Identity in London: The Jewish Free School Case
How Britain's highest court misunderstands Judaism.
Endless Devotion
Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks' new translation of the siddur moves Hillel Halkin to reconsider Jewish prayer.
Faith in Doubt
Can doubt provide the space that allows secular and religious Jews to coexist in Israel?
God and Idolatry
Saving God may look Maimonidean on the surface, but Rambam would never agree with Johnston's basic conclusions.
In Whose Image?
On the spectrum between animal and divine, where do human beings fall?