POEM Queen Esther By VANESSA HIDARY
My Jewish Grandmother spoke Arabic.
ESSAY Secularization in
Mizrahi Jewish Life By MICHEL ABITBOL
Mizrahi Jews “believed that just because something was done in the past did
not make it sacred.”
INTERVIEW Conversations with A.B.
Yehoshua By BERNARD HORN
Leading Israeli novelist Yehoshua discusses Jewish culture and identity, and
the importance of Jewish texts.
ESSAY Martin
Buber’s Secular Religiosity By RON MARGOLIN
and SARAH PESSIN
In honor of the birthday of one humanitarian, we bring you the philosophy of
another who influenced him.
December 2007
ESSAY Epicurus'
Jewish Legacy By YAAKOV MALKIN
Yaakov Malkin explores the ancient Jewish tradition of heresy.
ESSAY Secular
Jews and Pacifism By BENNETT
MURASKIN
As a secular Jewish youth, my heroes were hardly pacifists…
ESSAY The
Colombian Inquisition By ILAN STAVANS
A skeptic’s lesson on the virtues of secularism.
October 2007
DIALOGUE Modern
Love By ILAN STAVANS
with VERÓNICA ALBIN
Stavans discusses modern, secular concepts of Jewish love.
September 2007
VIDEO Amos Oz on Modern Jewish
Culture For the Israel
Prize-winning author, anarchism and humor are Jewish sensibilities. In this
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ESSAY Modern Encounters By DAVID BIALE
A leading scholar reflects on the idea of modern Jewish cultures—plural.
ESSAY Beyond Belief By JESSE TISCH Pulitzer Prize-winner
Natalie Angier on second-wave atheism, life after death, and Jewish
stereotypes.
ESSAY Freethinkers in the
Government? By SUSAN JACOBY Secularism belongs at the
center, not in the margins, of the American public square.
ESSAY Back to the Future By DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
Re-embracing core traditions to create a modern Judaism.
ESSAY Lilith, Then Miriam By VANESSA L. OCHS
The "poster-girls" for Jewish feminists have come a long way since
the 1970s.
ESSAY What Does It Have to
Do With Me? By MITCHELL SILVER
The so-called "wicked child’s" question is part of the inspiration
for a philosophy of secular Jewish identity and education.
INTERVIEW Three Decades of
Jewish Feminism By REBECCA PHILLIPS
Susan Weidman Schneider, founder of the magazine Lilith, discusses how
she sees women continuing to change the world with words and deeds rather
than flags.
March 2007
ESSAY Reflections on a
Belated Apostasy By NAOMI SEIDMAN
Even as a kid, Naomi Seidman knew that there was a Jewish world beyond her
Brooklyn shtetl.
ESSAY Jewish, Secular, and
Popular By TED MERWIN
Jazz-Age Jews not only consumed pop culture, they helped create it.
ESSAY Holy Yiddishkeit,
Batman! By JEFFREY SHANDLER
Yiddishist Jeffrey Shandler has a quick but thorough lesson for novelist
Michael Chabon.
REVIEW The Next Generation By JESSE TISCH
Jewish life and the end of the Diaspora.
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