![The Blessings of Manasia](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Aronson1-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
The Blessings of Manasia
His father recited Modeh Ani every morning and ordered a set of tefillin from Mumbai. Unaware that they were meant to be worn and not merely kept, he put them away on a shelf.
![The Most Important Word in the World](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Keiter-slider-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
The Most Important Word in the World
For a moment, a literary giant and talmudic genius sparred over the implications of a biblical phrase.
![The Protocols of Neoliberalism](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kitsch-slider-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
The Protocols of Neoliberalism
Baram’s characters are righteously indignant at the system and determined to bring it down.
![The Wry Comedy of A. B. Yehoshua](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Alter-slider1-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
The Wry Comedy of A. B. Yehoshua
Remembering the ebullient spirit and radical fiction of A. B. Yehoshua.
![Think Over My Lesson and Try to Destroy It](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Finkelman-slider-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
Think Over My Lesson and Try to Destroy It
When Levinas met a vagabond called Chouchani, he told a friend, “I cannot tell what he knows, all I can say is that all that I know, he knows.” Now that we have dozens of Chouchani’s notebooks, can we finally know what he knew?
![Walking with Walter Benjamin](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Hill-slider-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
Walking with Walter Benjamin
On losing one’s self in Walter Benjamin’s final wanderings.
![“The One You Love”? A Case of Divine Disappointment](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Weiss-slider-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
“The One You Love”? A Case of Divine Disappointment
Which son did Abraham favor? Reading "the binding of Isaac" with fresh eyes.
![EUGENE NADELMAN: A Tale of the 1980s in Verse](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/20210723_182121-1-scaled-1-1024x576-c-default.jpeg)
EUGENE NADELMAN: A Tale of the 1980s in Verse
"Our tale's debut / Takes place in 1982 / When I, for one, if not exactly / A double of our leading guy / Was like him, bookish, awkward, shy." - Coming of age in iambic tetrameter.
![Now a Museum, the Synagogue was Meticulously Restored . . .](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Synagogues_p058-59-1-scaled-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
Now a Museum, the Synagogue was Meticulously Restored . . .
The synagogue is a mikdash me’at, a little sanctuary or temple. But what really makes a shul holy and how should they be remembered?
![Jews and the Ukrainian Question](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Shore-slider-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
Jews and the Ukrainian Question
“After the victory,” he wrote to his friend, “we’ll play music—Jewish music, Ukrainian music, and not only.”