Letters
Letters, Fall 2012
Much Ado About Nothing, Borges' Aleph, Herzl's Tel Aviv, What would Kany Say?
Features
Brave New Bavli: Talmud in the Age of the iPad
The Talmud was hypertextual before we had the word. ArtScroll's new app is only the beginning.
Pro-Creation
Economist Bryan Caplan thinks parents “overcharge” themselves when it comes to investing in their children. Glückel of Hameln knew better.
Reviews
Category Error
What is lost when the books of the Hebrew Bible are read as philosophy?
Black September
Organizers of the 1972 Olympic games were determined to avoid recalling Munich's Nazi past—which inadvertently facilitated the bloody massacre of Israeli athletes.
Remembering the Forgotten
Historian Bernard Wasserstein narrates Jewish life in Europe between the world wars.
Spy vs. Spy
Beginning in 1940 the French and the Zionists had a common enemy—the British.
Poets of the Tribe
The story of 12 Hebrew poets—in America.
Tough Bananas
A rags-to-riches tale with a machete-swinging Jewish hero.
It’s Complicated
Isaiah Berlin's influential liberalism is partly explained by his Zionism.
Politics and Anti-Politics
Michael Walzer asks new questions of the biblical text, the same sorts of questions we often ask of Locke or Voltaire.
Readings
Spinoza in Shtreimels: An Underground Seminar
A professor and three Hasidim walk into a bar—to study philosophy. True story.
The Arts
No Greater Love
The Israeli music scene is bringing together world-class Israeli jazz and classic Sephardic liturgical music. Voilà!: the jazz piyyut.
Exchange
Friendly Fire: A Response and Rejoinder
Peter Berkowitz, Jeremy Rabkin
Peter Berkowitz responds to Jeremy Rabkin.
Last Word
Where Abraham Walked
Preserved for centuries by Syrian Christians, spoken-Aramaic is now breathing its last.
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