Religion
When our fictive reporter discusses conversion with two ultra-orthodox rabbis over pizza, the result is of-feh-nsive!
Culture
In the continuation of this essay, the great cultural critic’s discussion of toys illuminates the ways in which the Toy Story trilogy complicates our understanding of the relationship between adults and children.
Culture
“Anyone who teaches about Black-Jewish relations, anyone who talks about bohemia and the Beats and life in the Village in the ‘50s” needs to read Seymour Krim.
Religion
Has traditionalist publisher ArtScroll, in trying to prevent assimiliation, instead provided Jews with a means to accomodate to American life? So says Jeremy Stolow, reviewed here by Shaul Magid
Columnists
Three flower fairies, a boar, and 92 degree heat–welcome to my sister’s wedding!
A meditation on Noah’s ark collectibles leads Angela to ask: What if Noah’s Ark is found? Would faith float back to the surface?
Alma is not the first nice Jewish girl to wish Bill Cosby lived next door. If only her family could be more like his.
Culture
The quince was a cure-all to the ancients, but in Kaveh’s twisted world, the fruit takes sides against our natural capacity to forgive and forget.
Culture
A Zombie Day of Atonement. A great-grandmother’s infidelities. An escape from Czech nationalists. The next generation of Jews is rediscovering its past on the way to creating a new future.
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