Letters, Summer 2025
No Afikoman, No Problem; Demon Bowls; Fearless; and Extraterrestrial Exodus
Golden Ledgers
In the world's first Jewish public library, bearded scholars read side-by-side with bare-armed women.
Making Sense of War: A Rejoinder to Asaf Hazani
Can one understand war without talking about heroism?
Studying War: A Response to Matti Friedman
Viewing war as an anthropologist
The Cost of Immersion
What is the future of American Jewry's in a postethnic age?
Your Father Shoulders You: On Inheriting Paul Celan
Paul Celan raised his son in a home saturated by languages and haunted by unsayable things.
Visiting the Graves of the Righteous: Inns of Molten Blue
Graves of Tzaddikim hold many things—hopes, prayers, and sometimes even the deceased's body.
Mobilizing Emotions
The last couple of years have been grueling for Israelis, but it's hard to remember any time when war didn't make extraordinary emotional demands on them.
Sorry, No More Borscht
Alfred E. Neuman may not have been Jewish, but all his friends were.
Diaspora Scrapbook
Rachel Cockerell didn't write a word of her inventive memoir. The past did.