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Dobisz’s Sword
The curious case of the sword and the cup. A story by S.Y. Agnon
Framing Devices
Remembering Sukkah City
Shabbat Shalom, Hey?
Sometimes, Friday night dinner feels like murder.
Awe and Shmutz
The greatest challenge for a Philip Roth biographer is that Roth was there first.
Monuments and Mosaics: The Ancient Synagogues of the Galilee
Mosaics, elephants, and the problem of archeology.
Life among the Readers
Ilana Kurshan's reading cure.
Woman’s Work
What are Jewish studies, anyways?
Shtetl Revenant
Chaim Grade's Anatevka finally meets the world.
Our Great Cause
How Soviet Jews freed American Jewry.
Rabbis in Wartime
In times of war, do we turn to pulpit rabbis for the right answers or for the right questions?