Desert Wild
Zornberg’s sessions are deeply informed by traditional Jewish sources, especially the interpretations of classic rabbinic midrash and the homilies of Hasidic masters.
Halakha and State: An Exchange
In our Winter 2016 issue, Elli Fischer explained why he defies the Israeli Chief Rabbinate and argued for radical reform. Four responses and his rejoinder.
Inconceivable
Two new books push readers to examine the phenomenon of childlessness in the Jewish tradition and modern Jewish life.
It’s Spring Again
A startling painting on the walls of the ancient synagogue at Dura Europos depicts some 2nd-century Jews who have, until recently, been dead and who look very surprised to have been reconstituted and revived.
Jews on the Loose
If fame is when everyone understands it is you when only your first name is mentioned, Groucho (Marx) certainly qualifies.
Letters, Spring 2016
Reform from Within, God-Intoxicated Plenitude, A Bukh Missing in Boisk
Lost in Translation
When Aviya Kushner encountered the Bible not in Hebrew, but in translation, she was shocked at how different it was, both in form and in substance.
Michael Wyschogrod and the Challenge of God’s Scandalous Love
The late Michael Wyschogrod may have been the boldest Jewish theologian of the 20th century.
One Nation, Two Disraelis
In locating Disraeli within modern Jewish history, the late David Cesarani engages with a tradition that he traces back to Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin, who placed Disraeli’s Jewishness at the heart of his private life, his novels, his political thought, and his career as a politician.
Pour Out Your Fury
When the Bavarian government confiscated thousands of books from monasteries in 1803, among them was an utterly unique haggadah.