Culture

50 years after his passing, Agnon is as relevant as ever. Agnon expert and Lehrhaus Consulting Editor Jeffrey Saks explains.

Shumel Hain discusses how we can bridge the "Tragic Gap" between the world envisioned in the blessing on budding fruit tress and our current reality of pandemic and tragedy

In this imaginative short story from David Zvi Kalman, as synagogue attendance shrinks, the buildings themselves begin to grow.

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

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

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

Peninah Taragin Gershman I once made a Holocaust joke. It was not intentional, and it was not planned, but I said it, and it landed...

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.

David Muller reflects on the impact a teacher and a Holocaust play at school had on him as a child.

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