Authors Posts by Chesky Kopel
Chesky Kopel
Chesky Kopel is an editor at The Lehrhaus and a lawyer, writer, and lecturer living in Silver Spring with his wife Talya and their three children.
Shirah Hadashah: A Review of Three Jewish Poets’ Inaugural Collections
In this review, Chesky Kopel juxtaposes three new poetry books which illustrate today's trials and tribulations: Tikvah Hecht's "Tashlikh," Brian Rohr's "Shaken to my Bones: A Poetic Midrash on the Torah," and Eden Pearlstein's "Nothing is for Everyone."
Divinity and History in the World of Chabad
Chesky Kopel reviews Eli Rubin’s new book Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism.
“Endless Light” and Boundless Soul
A review of Yehoshua November’s The Concealment of Endless Light.
Between Berlin 1936 and Beijing 2022
Chesky Kopel explores the similarities between the 2022 Beijing Olympics and the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
An Essential Jewish Text on the Armenian Genocide
Chesky Kopel analyzes an early Zionist text to give insight into Jewish reactions to the Armenian genocide.
Rudolph Kastner and How History Becomes Midrash
Chesky Kopel looks at the various tellings and retellings of the controversial deal that Rudolph Kastner made with Nazi leadership in Budapest and argues that they represent a modern-day Midrashic presentation of the history.
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