Essay

Morality, Fate, Faith, Freedom: Reasons to Revisit Bernard Malamud

“Can a writer write for all men from a position of minority? Malamud’s work convinces me.”

Nellie Hermann October 8, 2018

Essay

The DOJ Fired Me For Protesting Family Separation. I Don’t Regret It.

Speaking truth to power is necessary to force political change.

Allison Hrabar October 2, 2018

Essay

Writing About the Present: Mirror, Body, Shadow

An essay from Joshua Cohen’s new collection, Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction.

Joshua Cohen August 27, 2018

Essay

Jeffrey Goldberg Doesn’t Speak for the Jews

The editor of The Atlantic represents the failure of the liberal establishment.

David Klion August 2, 2018

Essay

Art in a State of Emergency

What is the artist’s responsibility in a time of political crisis?

Arielle Angel July 31, 2018

Essay

“What does Vietnam have to do with Tisha B’Av?”

Most Jews who observe Tisha B’Av spend it mourning in synagogue. In 1972, this group spent the holiday in the streets—presaging today’s era of political ritual.

Isaac Brosilow July 26, 2018

Essay

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, 1945 – 2018

Remembering one of American Jewry’s most inspiring activists and writers.

Esther Kaplan, Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark, Donna Nevel, and Alisa Solomon July 17, 2018

Essay

Good Riddance to Anthony Kennedy—Now #PackTheCourts

A bad judge and a worse writer leaves American democracy with a political organizing crisis.

Ian Samuel June 30, 2018

Essay

Roth Versus The Rabbis

“It was presumptuous of you, Rabbi Rackman, to speak of yourself to me as ‘a leader of his people.’ You are not my leader and I can only thank God for it.”

Josh Lambert May 23, 2018