
The Gentile Jewess
Am I Gentile? Am I a Jewess? Both and neither. What am I? I am what I am.” Muriel Spark at 100.

Postcards from the Shoah
Stamps and the paper they traveled on create a historical record of the Holocaust, capturing, for instance, “the exact historical moment when one person reached out in desperation to another."

Searching for Ancient Passover in Samaria and Ethiopia
Bloody bucket brigades and white galoshes: Not everyone celebrates Passover with four cups and four questions. Rachel Scheinerman on Passover in Samaria and Ethiopia.
Moses, Aaron, and Pharaoh Walk into a Bar: Passover in the Union Army
Yankee ingenuity at Passover: how one regiment made a Seder in the midst of the Civil War.

18 Questions with Jeremy Dauber: The Purim Edition
Who ruled the Borscht Belt: Allan Sherman or Lenny Bruce? Jewish comedy expert Jeremy Dauber casts his vote in a humorous interview—just in time for Purim.
The Mortara Affair, Redux
Bologna, 1857: A six-year old is taken from his Jewish family to be raised a Catholic. Why are we still talking about this case? An archbishop responds.
Shababshubap
Black hat chic: Shai Secunda's review of Shababnikim, the new television show about cool yeshiva students.
18 Questions with Dara Horn
Dara Horn’s new novel, Eternal Life, is out today. We caught up with her and asked her 18 questions.
Lost Music
Jeffrey M. Green, Aharon Appelfeld’s translator for more than 30 years, remembers the beloved Israeli novelist.

Hanukkah and State: The Hasmonean Legacy
The exchange between Rabbi Riskin and Rabbi Sacks on Jewish power and politics is illuminated by the history of Hanukkah.