Books
How Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott identified with the Jews
Derek Walcott, who has died at the age of 87, empathized with the Jewish experience and enjoyed a close friendship with the poet Joseph Brodsky.
In Amsterdam, borne back ceaselessly into a Jewish past
“House on Endless Waters” is an intensely clever literary construction that never compromises readability.
Yes, exclusion of women in Jewish Studies is still a problem
“Discrimination rarely targets just one group or category.”
Is Beloved NYC Grocery Store ‘Fairway’ Really Closing?
The store denies it.
There’s something very Jewish about Winnie-The-Pooh — and it’s not just Eeyore’s attitude
For Milne, a serious novelist, playwright and poet, Pooh became a Golem-like monster that would come back to haunt him.
Where are all the Others in Jewish Studies
Exclusion of women in Jewish Studies is a well-established, discriminatory phenomenon. But that’s not the only or even the gravest sin in the field.
How the Trumps and Kushners corrupted the American Dream
Except when the system really fails to work as intended, power feeds the powerful.
Deborah Lipstadt, Etgar Keret and Ilya Kaminsky take home National Jewish Book Awards
Deborah Lipstadt, Bari Weiss, Etgar Keret and Robert Alter all won top awards.
From Treblinka, a story of anguish and healing
For Diana Wichtel, facing the past felt superior to running from it.
The case against flogging Mark Zuckerberg
The Talmud has a way of dealing with the spread of misinformation. But there is a more measured and reasonable approach.
