News and Politics
Why Christian Zionists Love Jews and Other Notes from the End-Times
The campaign for Jews to partner with Christian Zionists has intensified since the formation of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) in 2006. Read what this means, and why Jews should care.
Life and Action
Of-feh-nsive!
When our fictive reporter discusses conversion with two ultra-orthodox rabbis over pizza, the result is of-feh-nsive!
Arts and Culture
The Trouble With Toys: Walter Benjamin, Pixar and the Search For Redemption (Part II)
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.
Arts and Culture
Maya Carrying Maya
An international artist, Maya has exhibited at the Museum of Art Ein Harod, Israel, Fest Fem in Valparaiso, Chile, at the International Visual Poetry Festival in Venezuala and at the KulturProjekte in Berlin. Her work performs Jewish identity. For updates, see www.mayaescobar.com
Arts and Culture
Interview: Mark Cohen on the Beats and why Seymour Krim Matters
“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.
Arts and Culture
Fiction: Quince
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.
Arts and Culture
Vive la Revolution!: ArtScroll and the Bourgeois Revolution of American Orthodoxy
Has traditionalist publisher ArtScroll, in trying to prevent assimiliation, instead provided Jews with a means to accommodate to American life? So says Jeremy Stolow, reviewed here by Shaul Magid
Arts and Culture
Half-Remembered Stories: Three Pieces
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.
Arts and Culture
The Trouble With Toys: Walter Benjamin, Pixar and the Search For Redemption (Part I)
In the first installment of this essay, the great cultural critic’s search for meaning in consumer society helps to frame the deeper significance of Pixar’s computer-animated films, particularly their Toy Story trilogy.
Life and Action
The Shrinking Jewish Body: A Review of Hungry to be Heard
If you are an Orthodox Jewish teen and suffer from an eating disorder, there are not many venues for you to learn about your pain.
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