Letters
Letters, Winter 2026
Apolitical Hostage Shai Secunda’s review of Eli Sharabi’s remarkable memoir Hostage (“Tunnel Vision,” Fall 2025) is mildly critical of Sharabi for not commenting on the politics of the hostage issue.
Reviews
The Emeser Detective: The Adventures of a Yiddish Shamus
Jewish problems solved by the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes.
Tsar Wars
A disastrous war, rising antisemitism, and floods of refugees: The plight of Russian Jews in World War I.
Missing Anne Frank
What we remember when we remember Anne Frank.
Enchanted Parenthesis
The aristocrats who tried to save Jewish children when nobody else would.
Free Radicals
Can philosophy save the Jewish State?
Expanding the Palace of Torah
Two new books explore the pain of self-acceptance.
Wayward Children?
What is Rav Soloveitchik's legacy? Well, it depends on which of his students you ask.
The Vanished Province: Remembering Bukovina
An old envelope opened the memory of a lost Jewish world.
Reflections
Two Years of War
How can we make sense after two years of war?
Readings
Rereading Daniel in Apocalyptic Times
Rereading Daniel in apocalyptic times–and relinquishing the illusion of control.
The Nuclear Option: Lise Meitner, Erwin Schrödinger, and the Science of Exile
As her former colleague Erwin Schrödinger cynically pledged his loyalty to Nazism in Austria, Lise Meitner plotted her escape from Hitler’s Berlin.
The Arts
A Cavalier Adaptation
Michael Chabon's novel was groundbreaking. But the new opera of Kavalier & Clay didn't exactly break a leg.
New Wave, Old Land
What did a Frenchman with an American name tell us about Israel?
The Riddler
The mysterious Mr. Shoshani.
You Want I Should Watch?
A high-concept Netflix cartoon depicts the new American Judaism—which, of course, means it's obsessed with the old kind.
Fiction
The Wife
"When they came to the door, she shrieked through the peephole, she drove them off, how they feared her! She could hear their heels pounding down the half-dozen flights of cracked marble."
Last Word
Podcasts Filled with Straw
The algorithm is trying to tell me something, and if I could just figure out where I lost my kabbalistic decoder ring, I could probably figure it out.
