Of Torahs and Children
The deep reason we dance with both Torahs and children on Simchat Torah.
Religious Liberty on Royce Quad
A UCLA student went for a walk through the quad when he was stopped at a barricade. If he had been willing to denounce Israel, he would have been able to pass. . . . The other First Amendment issue on campus.
The Jewess Mystique
An early feminist novel about a North African Jewish damsel in (Jewish) distress.
Tread Lightly Lest My People’s Bones Protest: Litvinoff, Eliot, and English Antisemitism
The London crowd was delighted to hear that the young poet would be reading an ode to T. S. Eliot; then, as if on cue, the great man entered the hall. “Eminence becomes you,” began Litvinoff. But then, oh dear . . .
Unsettling Ideology
A militant pseudo-academic ideology seeks to erase Israel's legitimacy—and existence.
Yehuda Amichai and the Jerusalem of the Middle
Yehuda Amichai's poetry brought angels and garbage collectors together on the streets of Jerusalem.
World of Their Children
Joshua Leifer’s much-anticipated new book made an even larger splash than originally expected when a Brooklyn bookstore employee cancelled a scheduled event. Can his book explain why that happened?
After Silence: On Lamentation
The Jewish tradition had responded to horror with speechlessness before, but is that what we need now?
Enlisting Orthodoxy
Cole S. Aronson attended a debate between a Haredi rabbi and a group of religious Zionists. It didn't go well, but was revealing in unexpected ways.
Operation Hebrew Camp
No American Jewish camp nowadays can equal the ebullient Zionism or fidelity to Hebrew that propelled Arzt and Co. into the sky.