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The President Responds to Rashida Tlaib
Is it really Rep. Tlaib’s language that’s a “disgrace”?
Eli Valley January 8, 2019
Mission Not Quite Accomplished
“Vice” is a flawed but valuable corrective to liberal Bush era amnesia.
Brendan James January 7, 2019
Lot’s Wife Speaks
Laura Eve Engel’s debut poetry collection, Things That Go, uses the biblical story to contemplate the act of looking and its ethics in an age of clickable tragedy.
Jessica Kirzane January 2, 2019
Jack Kirby’s Golem
Ben Grimm’s Jewishness has been hiding in plain sight for decades.
Ben Schwartz December 26, 2018
The Past Is Not Past
The Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude interrogates his country’s antisemitic history and its echoes in the present.
Mitchell Abidor December 25, 2018
What to Do When a Nazi Runs for President
A recent documentary revisits the 1986 election of a former Nazi to the Austrian presidency and the activists who sought to shut him down.
Deborah Krieger December 24, 2018
Unrequited Love: When Women Study the Talmud
Women Talmud scholars find different paths through a patriarchal text.
Susan Reimer-Torn December 11, 2018
Two Poems From ‘Comfort’
“they say she raised peacocks and grapes against all advice / —women inherit the worst / slices of property”
Sarah Heady December 11, 2018
