On That Distant Day
Benjamin Netanyahu is back in the Prime Minister’s chair, but where are the factions who put him there taking Israel?
Fleishman Is a Series
Fleishman's real problem is not an acrimonious divorce, but an uninspired adaptation.
Hanukkah’s Confounding Miracle
How Hanukkah became a holiday of many miracles and none.
As the Story Goes: Hanukkah Spears, Cheese, and Goblins
Where did all the Hanukkah stories go?
Jacob in the Bosom of Abraham
When Abraham met Jacob.
Spielberg’s Fable
A Spielbergian Fable with an Opaque Moral.
The Golem of Montreal
The famous golem of Prague was invented by a forger, faith healer, amulet salesman–and the most enterprising kosher chicken slaughterhouse supervisor of Montreal.
Chaim Grade: Portrait of the Artist as a Bareheaded Rosh Yeshiva
Grade attempted to perform the impossible: to undo in literature what had occurred in history and revive the dead of Jewish Vilna.
Frenemies, A Love Story
A new look at the most unlikely alliance that brought the Jewish State into being.
From King James to Koren
The new Koren Tanakh smoothly addresses some thorny questions of biblical translation, including this one: Are there dolphins in the Torah?