Culture

Ari Hoffman explores the expansive visions of Jewish peoplehood embedded in two major, recently published novels

Yitzchak Blau reviews Jeffrey Rubenstein’s The Land of Truth, Talmud Tales, Timeless Teachings.

The Yom Kippur War was a defining moment in the life of poet Leonard Cohen, a moment when his entire spiritual destiny hung in the balance. Bezalel Naor on Cohen's priestly imagination.

Chaim Davis shares reflections based on his family’s (and his) close relationship with Rabbi Steinsaltz.

Leah Cypess imagines the what-ifs of Pesach cleaning.

Marina Zilbergerts presents the philosophical questions posed by Chaim Grade's “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner,” and compares his arguments to those of other major thinkers such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche.

A poem addressed to survivors in the Chareidi community about the existential confusion endured by child sexual abuse.

Shalva Muschel offers some perspective on George Elliot's leading Jews and the newest attempt to gain a fuller appreciation of Daniel Deronda.

Todd Berman warns of antisemitism in strange places.

In his Yiddish poem "Hanukkah" (1932), Avrom Liessen poignantly recalled his early experience of the holiday. Dov Greenwood's vivid translation transports us into that wondrous world.