The Delicate Power of Modern Orthodox Judaism
As long as the Modern Orthodox community can work on civil discourse, it can face its unique challenges and continue to transmit its core values. By Shuli Taubes
Featured
High Stakes For Politically Liberal Modern Orthodox Jews
Can young Modern Orthodox Jews remain in such a tight-knit community while holding political positions opposed to those of their neighbors or rabbis? By Shira Hanau
Truth For Children
In the wake of World War II, French Jewish thinkers turned to the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic canons to narrate a Jewish past and future. By Sarah Hammerschlag
Her Sister’s Blouse
Jewish and Holocaust museums play a role in preserving and creating Jewish memory and in contributing to the development of communal identity. By Avril Alba
A ‘View Of Judaism in its Own Terms’
Harvard’s trajectory from Christian Hebraism to modern Jewish Studies and one larger-than-life professor critical to the transition. By Jon D. Levenson
Dialogue
Writing from a Paradoxical Place
A writer considers her tradition’s inheritance of childless women and finds strength in her heroines of Jewish literature. By Courtney Sender
God Talks: Neil Gillman Remembered
Rabbi Neil Gillman pushed his students to think about theology with more rigor and more imagination. By Daniel Ross Goodman
The Rise of the ‘Holy Spirit’ in Kabbalah
The rise of the ‘holy spirit’ in medieval Kabbalah marks a dramatic development in the history of Jewish mysticism. By Adam Afterman
On Exile and Elsewhere
A lively conversation with author André Aciman on the self-help book he never wrote and why a sense of irony is a Jewish trait. Benjamin Balint and André Aciman
A Rabbi on Our ‘Moral Emergency’
To be an acculturated Jew in America today is to vacillate between a sense of belonging and otherness. By Jordie Gerson
In Review
Art
Jewish Creators, Resonant Themes: Comics as Midrash
The superhero comic book and the graphic novel were both Jewish inventions. By Hillary Chute and Emmy Waldman
Film
Jewish Identity and Biblical Exposition in Darren Aronofsky’s Films
Evaluating the use of ancient Jewish modes of interpretation in Aronofsky’s mother! and Noah. By Eric X. Jarrard
Books
Savoring the Biblical Origins of Jewish Food
A Q&A with Joan Nathan on her latest cookbook, King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World. By Robert Israel
Books
An Alternative Theology of Destruction: Aligning with Suffering Jewish Flesh
Julia Watts Belser’s Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem. By Miriam-Simma Walfish
Books
Pinpointing the Exodus from Egypt
An edited chapter from איך נולד התנ”ך [How The Bible Was Born]. By Israel Knohl
poetry
Two Poems
Near the End of June
In Ezekiel
By Jennifer Barber
Three Poems
Prayers of a Heretic
By the Way
I’ll Dress You in Silken Wings
By Abraham Chalfi, translated from the Hebrew by Atar Hadari
Perspective
Embodied Practices, (Re)lived History
Yom Kippur is one example in Judaism demonstrating the way in which the past becomes an ever-present history—a history that is relived, reenacted, every day, through every prayer, in every holiday. By Rachel Slutsky
