I’m Still Here
Tuvia Reubner has said he has no homeland except perhaps his poetry. A new book expands that homeland's borders.
Killer Backdrop
If Auschwitz can have a gift shop, why can’t the Warsaw Ghetto have a love story?
Letters, Summer 2014
Reform Revisionist, Rashi's Shul, Khazars Shmazars
National Socialism, World Jewry, and the History of Being: Heidegger’s Black Notebooks
The thinking reflected in Heidegger's recently published notebooks from the 1930s is alarmingly crude. It is also much more difficult to separate from his philosophy than many would like to think.
Nostalgia for the Numinous
In the beginning there were the angry atheists. Terry Eagleton is more melancholy: “Atheism is by no means as easy as it looks.”
Peace, Plan B
Secretary of State John Kerry's attempt to get Israel and the Palestinians to a final status agreement was never going to work. What will?
Rallying Round the Flags
Derek Penslar's new book returns to aim Jewish soldiers of the diaspora to their rightful place in Jewish history.
Something Was Missing
When it was time for new MK Ruth Calderon to speak to Knesset for the first time, she told a Talmudic story and created a YouTube sensation. Her book has now been translated.
The Improbables
Not writing what you know can help an author steer away from autobiographical shoals, but it puts a certain research burden on the writer.
The Jewbird
It is in his stories, rather than his novels, that Malamud emerged as a unique writer. A new series brings new exposure to both.