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Diaspora Scrapbook
Rachel Cockerell didn't write a word of her inventive memoir. The past did.
The Grand Street Riot
The rabbi's funeral that changed America.
Haunted Heritage
We know what makes a house a mansion. What makes it Jewish?
In the Shadow of No Memory
Stuart Nadler tells a new kind of ghost story.
Hollywood Balagan
Hollywood's founding is a tale of shutfus, broiges, and mother's chicken soup.
Reverent Unknowing
A deeply personal memoir of theological hide-and-seek.
Story Evades Cogitation: An Interview with Cynthia Ozick
"I can’t and won’t reread: What’s done is done. Print is writing’s final fate."
Spaceships and Symbols: A Rejoinder to David Halperin
Why do we keep coming back to UFOs? Or, as some would have it, why do UFOs keep coming back to us, whether in Roswell or over Tehran?
This UFO Dream of Ours: A Response to Daniel Socher
78 years ago there was an Air Force press conference about a mysterious spaceship in Roswell, New Mexico. Are UFOs religious phenomena, like Ezekiel's vision? . . .
The Return of Ruth
Stuart Halpern on the many returns of Ruth.