In “Much,” Dror Burstein’s fictional Jerusalem is mired in filth, corruption and crises of muddy intractability.
What is it about Jewish humor — however broadly we define it — that has made it so popular in the overwhelmingly Christian United States?
In ‘Shipbreaking,’ poet Robin Beth Schaer drew inspiration from Talmud to write of the horrors and wonders of the natural world.
I know your children, and I wonder if they’ll forgive so many in the Jewish establishment for their cowardice.
Cotopaxi, Colorado, was once a windswept mountain colony dotted with tar paper shacks. This is what happened to it and its Russian Jewish pioneers.
Just think of Theodor Herzl and what do you see? A long, lush, black beard, fit for a modern day Moses. And here’s the thing: I touched it.
What do Presbyterians believe about Jews and Israel? The church’s divestment vote pushed Adam Rovner to investigate using Christian theology, Facebook and everything in between.
Jabotinsky was a complex figure — brilliant and a promulgator of doomsday scenarios. A new biography may help some readers feel a little less scared of him.
Ruth Wisse offers a cogent analysis of Jewish humor in her new book. Why does she overlook several decades of scholarship on ethnic jokes?
Jews didn’t flee Europe because of pogroms. They moved to all corners of the world to find economic opportunity, writes Gur Alroey in a new book.