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Standing at Sinai in Medieval Germany
An unusual illustration of revelation from the fourteenth century Tripartite Mahzor.
Biography of the Jewish Bible
An interview with David Stern on the many physical forms of the Jewish Bible, from parchment scroll to electronic tablet.
Shouts and Roars for the Finalists
Five finalists for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature have been announced. Read our reviews now.
Israel at 70: The Bonus Book List
Last week we asked 70 leading Israeli and American thinkers to recommend the best books about Israel. Here are some fascinating and quirky outtakes.
Books to Celebrate Israel at 70
We asked 70 leading Israeli and American thinkers to recommend the best books about Israel. Here are their top choices.
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.
Black Money
Terrorism is not cheap. Find a way of taking terrorists’ money, the logic would seem to dictate, and you may have a way of shutting them down.