Sander Gilman
By Sander Gilman
-
Culture Looking at People Looking at the Jewish Body
**The Jewish Body ** By Melvin Konner Nextbook/Schocken, 304 pages, $22. Given the national uproar about pay-for-play politics, let me begin with a disclaimer: Mel Konner is a colleague of mine at Emory University (where I have now been for the past three years as distinguished professor of the liberal arts and sciences, as well…
-
Culture Genetic Diseases? Yes. But Must We Call Them ‘Jewish’?
The extraordinary science of genetics, which is in the process of describing the very nature of our natures, is still in its infancy. The claims made for genetics, a science as narcissistic as any infant, generally outstrip the science’s ability to define or treat genetic illnesses. Yet there is an undeniable power in the notion…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Film & TV ‘Bojack Horseman’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg on his new, ‘unapologetically Jewish’ family affair
- 2
News ADL chief attacks Zohran Mamdani, but gets his facts wrong
- 3
Film & TV Who is Marty Reisman, the Jewish ping-pong star who inspired Timothée Chalamet’s new movie?
- 4
Culture It’s Jew vs. Jew in the fight over a Brooklyn bike lane
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture For barbraphiles and Streisand fanatics, a plethora of babtastic barbrabilia
-
News A conservative curriculum has been approved for public schools in eight states. What does it teach about Israel and Jews?
-
Fast Forward Israel approves vast West Bank settlement plan that far-right minister said ‘practically erases the two-state delusion’
-
Fast Forward Israel opens new embassy in Zambia, once home to a historic Jewish community
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
