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Vendyl Jones and the Temple Incense
Did a Noahide Texan decipher the Copper Scroll and find an ancient cache of incense?
Angels, Chickens, and the Debris of History
Inside Berlin’s Bode Museum, Klee’s angel is staring at the exit sign, perhaps like me, looking for a way out.
Why Can’t We Be Friends (Again)?
In a new documentary, Henry Louis Gates Jr. argues that the Black-Jewish alliance is imperfect but important, and, he hopes, salvageable.
Reels of Removal: The City Without Jews
The first time Vienna expelled its Jews was in an eerily prescient novel.
Balancing Acts: A Response to Shai Secunda
What is the responsibility of a critic?
Overbalanced: A Rejoinder to David Kraemer
What is the responsibility of a historian?
Groucho, Berlin, and Me
"So there I was, backstage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, asking Groucho Marx to show me his watch."
Transcendence Specialist
Spielberg’s Sense of Awe
Irreconcilable Indifferences
Night Night Yawn
“The Piano’s Open”
When a remark by Prof Halkin led to a query to Pete Seeger, which led to a hit Israeli novelty song, which . . .