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
Category: Autumn/Winter 2018
Two Poems by Jennifer Barber
“Near the End of June” and “In Ezekiel” by Jennifer Barber
Three Poems by Abraham Chalfi
“Prayers of a Heretic,” “By the Way,” and “I’ll Dress You in Silken Wings” by Abraham Chalfi, translated from the Hebrew by Atar Hadari
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pinpointing the Exodus from Egypt
An edited chapter from איך נולד התנ”ך [How The Bible Was Born]. By Israel Knohl
Embodied Practices, (Re)lived History
Yom Kippur is one example among many 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
An Alternative Theology of Destruction: Aligning with Suffering Jewish Flesh
A review of Julia Watts Belser’s Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of Jerusalem. By Miriam-Wimma Walfish
