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To mark Leonard Cohen’s fifth Yartzeit, James Diamond offers a creative take on how Cohen‘s complicated relationship with Judaism defined his music and poetry.

Leah Cypess imagines the what-ifs of Pesach cleaning.

In this short fiction narrative, David Zvi Kalman imagines a world in which figures such as Maimonides can be summoned through artificial intelligence, causing people and programs alike to contend with new and age-old questions.

Sarah Rindner asks what the Book of Leviticus, Leonard Cohen and the Liberty Bell all have in common.

Mel Waldman’s poem reflects on the delicate balance between faith and doubt in a world filled with challenges.

In honor of his tenth yahrtzheit, art historian Jackie Frankel Yaakov explores the art of Jewish Israeli artist Edwin Salomon (1935-2014). She argues that he was able to embrace his own expressionistic, Surrealism-evoking style when these approaches were marginalized in the Israeli art, shedding light on the ways he processed his experiences in the Holocaust and as a new immigrant to Israel.

Daniel A. Klein reviews a new book on Hebrew by Mitchell First.

In this poem, David Karpel imagines the expansiveness of God's promise about the land of Israel

Akiva Shapiro depicts the experience of outdoor prayers during the pandemic.

Judah Kerbel explores how differing approaches to listening to music during Sefirat ha-Omer balance the appropriate role for subjectivity in halakhic decision-making.