Reviews

Wendy Zierler interprets a 2015 poem by the late Haim Gouri, reflecting on the challenges of aging, and on the complex and often mournful relationship between the Jewish people, their history, and their literature.

The Yemenite Children Affair is among the most persistent myths in Israeli society. Ben Rothke reviews a recent book examining the evidence, or lack thereof, for the affair, as well as what its persistence means for community relations in contemporary Israel.

Menachem Kellner reviews Judaism’s Challenge: Election, Divine Love, and Human Enmity.

Alex Fleksher explores the intersection between Hamilton and the ba'al teshuvah experience. 

Gila Bieler-Hoch reviews Hilkhot Nashim, published by JOFA and Maggid Books.

Ben Frogel reviews a new volume that introduces thirty-five different Jewish approaches to virtue ethics and attempts to link them into one continuous tradition.

Meir Ekstein review Yonatan Rosensweig’s recently translated book on mental Health and Halakhah.

Tammy Jacobowitz reviews David Forman's latest book, a companion to Sefer Bereishit, and finds engaging, instructive literary analysis that pulls new insights from familiar stories.

Judah Kerbel Reviews Deborah E. Lipstadt's Antisemitism: Here and Now.

Sarah Rindner considers Moana's Disney revolution and its Jewish parallels.