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Marx and the Jewish Fingerprint Question
Are there hints about Marx’s thoughts on Judaism in his writing, and if so, what do they say?
Inerrant or Oblique?
John Barton has written a wonderful book about the Bible for believers and nonbelievers alike.
A Decade of Recommendations
In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we asked 10 of our favorite readers which books they had found themselves recommending the most over the last decade.
Letters, Spring 2020
A Kind of Conversation?, Law and Love, Kosher for Passover!, and Deep Rivers
Exodus and Egyptology
The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel shows why the plagues were chosen and how the Israelites sang at the reed sea.
Ba’al Teshuvah Poetics
Part of being a ba’al teshuvah is the yearning to stop being one—to finally blend with those who never had to return because they never left.
Golden Books
Three decades ago, Allan Nadler went to Vilna to reclaim books that the Nazis had plundered from YIVO, or so he thought. Dan Rabinowitz’s Lost Library solves the mystery—and raises important questions.
History with a Flourish
So much gets lost in translation—and to history—when household items, heavy with use, first assume the status of heirlooms and then land in museum vitrines, heralded as art rather than history.
Lawrence of Judea: T. E. Lawrence and the Deal of the Twentieth Century
"It is essential that [the Jewish community] should know that it is in Palestine as of right and not on sufferance." —Winston Churchill
Super Stan
Even in comparison with so many other contributions to American popular culture and entertainment, comic books are an especially Jewish story.