Letters
Letters, Fall 2025
Candles and Canines; Satellite Control; Trust the Process?; Jewish Central; and Scholarly Numbers
Features
The Antisemitic Singularity
The large language elephant, the alignment problem—and the Jewish problem.
Reviews
Tunnel Vision
Eli Sharabi's memoir takes readers down into the dark tunnels of his captivity.
Herod Boulevard
There's no Herod Boulevard in Israel, but should there be?
Jerusalem Holiday
Did Hadassah Kaplan invent the gap year in Israel?
Our Great Cause
How Soviet Jews freed American Jewry.
Shtetl Revenant
Chaim Grade's Anatevka finally meets the world.
Rabbis in Wartime
In times of war, do we turn to pulpit rabbis for the right answers or for the right questions?
Woman’s Work
What are Jewish studies, anyways?
Life among the Readers
Ilana Kurshan's reading cure.
Monuments and Mosaics: The Ancient Synagogues of the Galilee
Mosaics, elephants, and the problem of archeology.
Awe and Shmutz
The greatest challenge for a Philip Roth biographer is that Roth was there first.
Readings
“Alone Like Us, Perhaps”: Rereading an Ambivalent Masterpiece
Mihail Sebastian was a Romanian and a Jew, at least while he had a choice.
The Arts
Shabbat Shalom, Hey?
Sometimes, Friday night dinner feels like murder.
Framing Devices
Remembering Sukkah City
Lost & Found
Dobisz’s Sword
The curious case of the sword and the cup. A story by S.Y. Agnon
Last Word
Remains of the Desk
Archives draw obsessives, the helplessly curious. Having burrowed through a writer’s published work, they crave something more: closeness, insight.
