Life and Action

Faith Floats: Collecting Noah's Ark

By Angela Himsel

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?

Arts and Culture

All the way to Flatbush

By Mya Guarnieri

In this new installment of Alma’s story, Vic and Alma go to the pool.

Arts and Culture

When Realism Was King: Posters of the Labor Movement

The posters of the American Labor movement were shaped by the Depression but owed much to shifts in the reproduction of art, especially political art.

News and Politics

In Pursuit of Liberal Zionism

By Moshe Yaroni

Zionism was once synonymous with liberalism. Today, it connotes conservatism. Moshe Yaroni, on Diaspora Jewry’s alienation from Israel, and what it will take to reconnect the two.

Arts and Culture

Shir Yaakov sings Lecha Dodi

A new album from Shir Yaakov (of Darshan) gives us a new take on liturgy.

Faith and Practice

Jewish Enlightenment : Neo-Hasidism and Vedanta Hinduism

By Jay Michaelson

Jewish mystics face a problem Hindus don’t have: if there are no distinctions in the absolute, then the religion of the relative, with its rules and prohibitions, suddenly becomes incoherent. If nothing else, Judaism is a religion of distinctions and lines, and if Ein Sof erases lines, it erases normative Judaism.

Arts and Culture

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

By Mya Guarnieri

Alma is not the first nice Jewish girl to wish Bill Cosby lived next door. If only her family could be more like his.

News and Politics

When Language Fails

By Louis Frankenthaler

More democracy, less ideology. So pleads Louis Frankenthaler, as he protests the uses and abuses of the word “Zionism” in Israeli politics.

Faith and Practice

Seven Days for Shavuot?

By Andrew Ramer

Of the three harvest festivals, Sukkot and Passover are weeklong. Why not Shavuot?