Arts and Culture

Ginsberg's Kaddish

Bill Morgan’s new edition of Kaddish finally gives us a full picture of Ginsberg’s mother, to whom the poem is dedicated.

Arts and Culture

Fiction: Girl's Night Out

By Joan Gelfand

A rosh chodesh turns dark when three men break into their campsite and accuse them of witchcraft.

Arts and Culture

Klutzy Klezmer: Zeek's First Klezmer Liner Note Contest

By Bert Stratton

Bad spelling, weird mashups, yutz yiddish–can you beat klezmer musicians at their own game?

Faith and Practice

The Jewish Medicine Wheel

The Jewish holidays are reflections of our internal psychological landscape, following the cycles of the earth. The medicine wheel is a road map to these cycles.

Arts and Culture

Intellectual in Translation: An Interview with Ilan Stavans

By Bridget Kevane

Can an Ashkenazi edit a Sephardi anthology? Are there Jewish public intellectual role models today? What should be the role of identity politics?

Faith and Practice

A Diaspora of the Mind: American Jewry and the Secularization of Otherness

By Zach Dorfman

The largely secularist American Jewish population, which feels neither the covenantal pull of its forefathers, nor the desire to emigrate to the Jewish nation-state, nor the impulse to convert, finds itself in a unique kind of cognitive purgatory.

News and Politics

Bowling in Ramallah

By Zachary Goldman

Does economic growth in Ramallah mean economic peace for Israel/Palestine?

Arts and Culture

New Translations: Genesis

By Jill Nathanson

Jill Nathanson explores and updates the tradition of color-based abstraction, while experimenting with the abstract elements within Jewish thought.

Arts and Culture

Fiction: Next to the Traffic Signal, Under the Streetlight

By Nurit Kotler and Translated by Haim Watzman

A new diaspora of Israelis living abroad has taken Hebrew literature far from the concerns of the State. In this short story, paranoia and coincidence turn an encounter between an Israeli businessman and an elderly gentlemen on Parisian streets into a meeting with the uncanny. –Adam Rovner, Hebrew translations editor