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Yehoshua November's poem movingly and thoughtfully portrays the challenges and pleasures of Chassidic life.

Michael Blank explores themes from Emmanuel Levinas in Bob Dylan’s recent compositions.

The question of whether or not your writing is Jewish is not up to you, because writing ultimately belongs to the reader. Krauss’ avatar answers Ozick perfectly: “Jewish literature would have to wait, as all Jewish things wait for a perfection that in our hearts we don’t really want to come.” In the end, perhaps all we can do is kvetch and vacillate between different answers to the question of what is Jewish literature—because, of course, the answer was never the point.

Zev Eleff offers a rejoinder and some reflections on "What if Rav Aharon Had Stayed?"

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

Jeffrey Saks explores the works of the blind Israeli poet, Erez Biton.

A new poem from Zohar Atkins offers a poetic meditation on life in the COVID world.

Ilan Fuchs reviews Naomi Seidman’s book Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement.

In this essay, Yehoshua November presents a model for preparing for the High Holidays

Naima Hirsch Gelman provides three powerful poems exploring important themes in halakhic womanhood.