All Content

BY SHAYNA WEISS | In Alexander Kaye’s masterful The Invention of Jewish Theocracy, we learn that Rabbi Isaac Herzog was especially concerned

BY ALEXANDER KAYE | In many quarters today, there appears to be a symbiotic relationship between demagogues peddling ethnic or racial

M. LINDSAY KAPLAN | The Jewish “crimes” of killing Jesus and rejecting their divinely imposed subordination develop in popular fictions into a menacing threat against contemporary Christians.

N.A. MANSOUR | We do not allow our characters rest...

TIMOTHY LARSEN | Once upon a time, when young princesses were still plentiful, there nevertheless was a scarcity of children’s literature...

BRUCE FUDGE | Impostures is ostensibly the translation of a twelfth-century Arabic text...

ABRAM VAN ENGEN | In her 2004 Pulitzer-Prize winning novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson includes an odd scene...

JENNA PHILLIPS | In the wake of the plague outbreak of the mid-fourteenth century, a Florentine physician named Tommaso del Garbo...

TIMOTHY LARSEN | While the season of Christmas often brings out the best in people, somehow the subject of Christmas does not...

DAVID BIALE | Heinrich Heine was the first Jew to become a cultural icon in Germany...