Heard That
By ROBERT BIRNBAUM
The storied life of Studs Terkel

 



 

Two Religions, One Question
By REBECCA PHILLIPS
An assessment of The Faith Between Us.

 



 

Everything Old Is New Again—and That's the Problem
By MICAH SACHS
The editor of InterfaithFamily.com sounds off on The New American Judaism.

 



 

Reading the Bible, without Apologies
By BEZALEL STERN
James Kugel's smart new Bible book.

 



 

Is Yiddish Finished (and Can You Say That in Yiddish)?
By SANFORD PINSKER
Professor Pinsker inspects the new Michael Wex.

 



 

A Steaming Pot of Literary Gumbo
By STEVE WEINBERG
The Big Easy was never so funny, nor so Jewish.

 



 

In Dreams Begin Volumes
By MICHAEL KRESS
First Genesis, then Freud, now Rodger Kamenetz.

 



 

Beyond Accommodation: The Necessary Contradictions of Power
By SANFORD PINSKER
Professor Pinsker gets amped up over Jews and Power.

 



 

Foreskin's Lament: A Theological Appraisal
By NAOMI SEIDMAN
God plays as starring role in this brand-new autobiography.

 



 

Auslander's Dangerous Comedy
By DONALD WEBER
Putting our memoirist into the context of heretical comedians.

 



 

The Anarchist's Comic Book
By JOSH LAMBERT
Emma Goldman gets the four-color

 



 

Two Lives Without Men, America, or Commas
By JESSE TISCH
When Gertrude met Alice…

 



 


Mr. Strauss Goes to Washington
By BENJAMIN BALINT
A balance of the art of commentary and the practice of philosophy.

 



 

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Homes, Schooled

 

A Book to Stitch the Rift

 

Preface to a Tragedy

 

Stuck in the Middle