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The Blessings of Manasia

Fall 2022

The Blessings of Manasia

Cole S. Aronson

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

Fall 2022

The Most Important Word in the World

Sheila Tuller Keiter

For a moment, a literary giant and talmudic genius sparred over the implications of a biblical phrase.

The Protocols of Neoliberalism

Fall 2022

The Protocols of Neoliberalism

Adam Kirsch

Baram’s characters are righteously indignant at the system and determined to bring it down.

The Wry Comedy of A. B. Yehoshua

Fall 2022

The Wry Comedy of A. B. Yehoshua

Robert Alter

Remembering the ebullient spirit and radical fiction of A. B. Yehoshua.

Think Over My Lesson and Try to Destroy It

Fall 2022

Think Over My Lesson and Try to Destroy It

Yoel Finkelman

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

Fall 2022

Walking with Walter Benjamin

Samantha Rose Hill

On losing one’s self in Walter Benjamin’s final wanderings.

“The One You Love”? A Case of Divine Disappointment

Fall 2022

“The One You Love”? A Case of Divine Disappointment

Roslyn Weiss

Which son did Abraham favor? Reading "the binding of Isaac" with fresh eyes.

EUGENE NADELMAN: A Tale of the 1980s in Verse

September 23, 2022

EUGENE NADELMAN: A Tale of the 1980s in Verse

Michael Weingrad

"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 . . .

August 4, 2022

Now a Museum, the Synagogue was Meticulously Restored . . .

Stuart Halpern

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

Summer 2022

Jews and the Ukrainian Question

Marci Shore

“After the victory,” he wrote to his friend, “we’ll play music—Jewish music, Ukrainian music, and not only.”

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