Culture

Sarah Rindner reviews Shababniks and its portrait of haredi life.

A passionate sonnet by Yocheved Friedman in memory of the Rav, zt'l.

Leah Cypess imagines the what-ifs of Pesach cleaning.

Todd Berman warns of antisemitism in strange places.

The Agnon scholar, Jeffrey Saks, sees some Agnonian work in modern Israeli literature.

Yoel Finkelman explains why the Orthodox still have good use for newspapers, while many other groups don't.

Ayelet Wenger on women and Torah and Talmud and some things (that get) in between.

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.

Continuing the conversation, Dr. Miriam Feldmann-Kaye introduces postmodernism and responds to some critics of Rav Shagar.

Risa Miller The latest addition to the burgeoning subgenre of ‘off-the-derekh’ memoirs is Tova Mirvis’s The Book of Separation. Mirvis’s three published novels, which oftentimes...