The Gospel of Amy-Jill Levine
The Life and times of a Jewish New Testament Scholar // Rewind to the summer of 1963: Future New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine was watching the broadcast of Pope John XXIII’s funeral on her parents’ TV set.
The Last Synagogue Standing
Jewish life in Detroit isn't dead. In fact, it's having a hipster rebirth // We’re across the street from a strip club called Cobras advertising something called “The Grind Downtown,” and we’re dancing with the Torah. Through downtown Detroit, a group of 100 or so is parading down the sidewalks of Griswold Street and Grand River Avenue, hoisting the scrolls and chanting Hebrew songs in honor of Simchat Torah.
Opinion: One State? Only on Twitter!
“Techno-utopianism” promotes the misconception that a shared state is possible. // By Gershom Gorenberg
The Long Life of Fiddler on the Roof
Alisa Solomon is the author most recently of the new book Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof. She also has written Re-Dressing the...
Q&A: Naomi Tsur on Women in Jerusalem Politics
Naomi Tsur spent five years as a third-string deputy to Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, responsible for the ancient city’s urban planning and environmental sustainability files.
But...
Opinion: Jews and Latinos, an Alliance Built on Shared Values
There is a growing political alliance between Latinos and Jews in America – but it’s not for the reasons some people think.
In recent months,...
Opinion: Gilad Shalit’s Negotiator, Gershon Baskin
On October 18 we mark two years from the remarkable day when the world waited with great anticipation to see Gilad Shalit stride from captivity...
Jews and Latinos: Finding Common Ground
Last week, the Jewish social justice group Bend the Arc joined a clamorous immigration reform rally on the National Mall in Washington, DC. And back...
The Catholic Conversion in Teaching on Jews
Sometime in my mid-teens, I asked to join the CYO basketball team at the parish church in my New Jersey hometown. For the uninitiated, CYO stands for Catholic Youth Organization, and it was the group to which my two best friends belonged. Jimmy Lyons lived across the street from me, and Tim Mulligan was his buddy from parochial school. Needless to say, I was Jewish.
Book Review: The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem
Reviewed by Clyde Haberman
Book Review: The Rise of Abraham Cahan
Reviewed by Jonathan Brent
Interview: Richard Saul Wurman
The restless architect and designer who dreamed up TED hasn’t stopped inventing new ways of organizing information in search of what he calls “the God of understanding.”