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April 2008
Andrew Furman, The Russification of Jewish-American Fiction
Rabbi Jeff Sultar, Street Seders for the Global Climate Crisis
Mitchell Plitnick, Shoah Madness
Dan Friedman, Epicure on Rye - A Profile of Gary Shteyngart
Alex Epstein, The Mystery of Jewish and Aryan Chess
Jay Michaelson, Sick Enough for Religion
Michael Brodsky, The Bank Teller’s Game
Boris Karloff, Yiddish Poems by Boris Karloff
March 2008
Mordecai Drache, Love and the Bible: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans
Shaul Magid and Boaz Huss, Is Kabbalah Mysticism? Continuing the Debate
Joel Schalit , (De)Programming the Middle East: A Conversation with Jamal Dajani
Jay Michaelson, The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love
Jerome Copulsky, Ruth Wisse’s Sermon
Boaz Izraeli, A Present from Dad
Marina Genkina, ARTSESSION 2007: Contemporary Israeli Artists from Russia
David Rabeeya, A Sephardic Answer to Modern Jewish Identity
Linda Zisquit , Between
February 2008
David Gottlieb, Lech Lecha, or: How Israeli Jews Find Renewal in Diaspora
Jay Michaelson, Polytheism and Nonduality
Steven Lee Beeber, From Oi to Oy: is Hardcore Punk Suddenly Kosher?
Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi, A Triumphalist Table of In/Compatibility of other Religions with Judaism
Cheryl Goldstein, Ostriker Reviewed
Rami Shapiro, Why Pray?
Val Vinokur, Roth, Babel, and a Question of Blood
Joel Schalit, Revelation Time
Yonah Bahur, The Doll
Jonathan Everett Maseng, The Accidental Aryan
Yerra Sugarman, Poems by Yerra Sugarman
January 2008
Shifra Bronznick, DIY Judaism: A Roundtable on the Independant Minyan Phenomenon
Riv-Ellen Prell, Independent Minyanim and Prayer Groups of the 1970s: Historical and Sociological Perspectives
Ilana Kurshan, Stacking the Plastic Chairs: Running an Egalitarian Minyan in Jerusalem
Ethan Tucker , What Independent Minyanim Teach Us About the Next Generation of Jewish Communities
Stephen Hazan Arnoff, Hey Judes: Dylan and the Beatles Transformed
Sacha Baron Cohen, Sacha Baron Cohen's iPod
Roger S. Gottlieb, Justice in a Time of Madness - Righteousness Ain’t as Easy as it Looks
Robert Hirschfield, An Afternoon with Mubarak Awad
Ron Leshem, What He Can’t Do Anymore
Shirley Kaufman , Late Love Poem
Patty Seyburn, B’rachot: A Catalog and Three Friends
December 2007
Jo Ellen Green Kaiser, Why Social Justice Needs Religion
Jay Michaelson , It's the Deep Structure, Stupid
Boaz Huss, Jewish Mysticism in the University: Academic Study or Theological Practice?
Evan Fallenberg, Light Fell
Alicia Ostriker, Three Poems by Alicia Ostriker
Gordon Haber, Festival of Cant: The “Israel Lobby” and Abraham Foxman
Ron Nachmann, History for the Untrained: A Look at Six Days
Maya Arad, Another Place, A Foreign City—An Excerpt
Boaz Kadman, Boaz Kadman: A Selection
Anne Goldman, Against Mourning
November 2007
Mark Oppenheimer, This American Life and the Illusion of No Illusion
Rodger Kamenetz, Three Poems by Rodger Kamenetz
Rachel Barenblat, Rethinking Kashrut: An Interview with Rabbi Morris Allen
Jay Michaelson, A BuJu Responds to Sam Harris
Eliezer Sobel, The Sanctuary of Melody
Maya Schenwar, Reimagining the Tabernacle: America’s First Green Synagogue
Agur Schiff, Blessed are the Merciful, For They Shall Obtain Mercy
Dalia Rosenfeld, The Other Air
October 2007
Stephen Hazan Arnoff, Temporary Like Zuckerman: Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost
Yoram Kaniuk, “Killers”: Excerpted from I Did It My Way
Jake Marmer, In The Beginning
David Stromberg, Diamond in the Rough
James Horrox, Rebuilding Israel’s Utopia
Scott Copeland, Sleeping with One Eye Open: Israel at Sixty
Ellen Bernstein , Creating a Sustainable Jewish Ecology
Joshua Henkin, Matrimony: An Excerpt
September 2007
Zachary Braiterman, We Ourselves Are to Blame: Hannah Arendt’s Jewish Writings
Jon Papernick, Trudy’s Wedding
Jay Michaelson, The Gifts of Boredom
Sculpture by Jonathan Ofek - Text by Amitai Mendelsohn, Couples
Michal Govrin, Snapshots: An Excerpt
Mark Cohen, Missing A Beat
Isaac Goldemberg, Poems - With an Introduction by Ilan Stavans
Kurt Gegenhuber, Music, Moonshine, and Mahjong
August 2007
Julia Watts Belser, Making Room for the Divine She
Jay Michaelson, Entering the Gate of Sadness
Jacob Howland, Review: A Restless Anthropologist: Primo Levi’s “A Tranquil Star”
Roi Ben-Yehuda , False Memory: Misusing History in the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Yechezkel Rachamim, Water
Tal Nitzan, The Canary (Interior Design)
Moshe Kornfeld, A Jewish Tree Hugger's Plea
Dan Friedman, Jews and Pop Culture: If Not Now, When? And if Now, Why?
July 2007
Jay Michaelson, Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind
Joshua Furst, A Long Way from Zion: Michael Chabon's Yiddish Noir
Rabbi Elliot Rose Kukla, The Twisted Wick: Talmud Study as Spiritual Practice for Post-Modern Jews
Julie Meslin, like a fish
Ayelet Ben-Ziv, Festival of Lights
Simon Shaw, Inside the German Brain: An English Neurosurgeon Abroad
Shai Ginsburg, Enemies Out of the Frame: Joseph Cedar’s Beaufort
Jeffrey M. Green, In Vincoli
June 2007
Stephen Hazan Arnoff, He’s Not There (2007): Talkin’ Bob Dylan Symposium Blues
Jill Jacobs, The History of "Tikkun Olam"
Charles Rammelkamp, Matchmaker
Jay Michaelson, Why I Study Sabbateanism
David J. Halperin , Sabbatai Zevi at Prayer
Translated by Gavriel Wasserman, A Hymn of Praise to Sabbatei Zevi
Dr. Yotam Hotam, Zionism and Gnosticism
Photographs by Barry Kapandji, The House of the Messiah in Ruins
Dan Tsalka, Two Excerpts from Tsalka's Alef-Bet
Rachel Barenblat, Shoshana Gugenheim: Woman of the Book
Benjamin David, Story of the Stones
Miriam Cohen, Mothers, Daughters, and the Word: Talking with Yael Goldstein
May 2007
Jay Michaelson and Peter Bebergal, Nathan Englander's The Ministry of Special Cases: Two Reviews by Zeek
Rabbi Or N. Rose, Hillel Zeitlin: The Foundations of Hasidism
Dr. Dan Friedman, A World Written: In Conversation with Tamar Yellin
Amir Gutfreund, Shadow Play
Jordan Benjamin, The Languages of Vilnius
David Stromberg, A Living Lens
Dan Bellm, Blessing / Curse
Scott Korb, I Dream of Amy
April 2007
Shaul Magid and Paul Bogdanor, Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Boundaries of Dissent: Round 2 of the Alvin Rosenfeld Debate
S. Yizhar, Sting: An Excerpt from "Preliminaries"
Professor Alon Tal , Hot Times in the Holy Land: The Effects of Global Climate Change on Israel
Susan Chevlowe, Shoot Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses: The Biblical Stories of Adi Nes
Yosef Israel Abramowitz and Stephen Hazan Arnoff, Four Questions, Five Answers: On Passover, Peoplehood, and Policy
Philip Terman, The Exile and The Shank: Two Poems by Philip Terman
Peter Bebergal, Mah Nishtanah? Michael Dorf and the Downtown Seder
Jay Michaelson, Getting Serious About a Religion of Love
March 2007
Tucker Lieberman, Hearing Beneath the Surface: Crossing Gender Boundaries at the Ari Mikveh
Maureen Sherbondy, At the Mikveh, Age Four
David Stromberg, Russian as an American Language: A Conversation with Anya Ulinich
Jay Michaelson, Keep Your Godwrestling, Thanks: The Uses and Limits of Theology
Peter Bebergal, Will Holshouser Speaks the Language of Klezmer
Rachel Barenblat, David Ingber: Shaping an Integral Judaism
Reuven Miran, Three Short Stories
Richard Chess, Variations on a Theme by Wiesel
February 2007
Efrat Naveh, Behind the Sun
Mordecai Drache, Jobnik!: A Good Jewish Girl Gone Better
Leah Koenig, Kishke, Culture, and Celebrity Chefs: A Conversation with the Food Maven
Jay Michaelson, Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path
Steve Tarlow, The Hidden Ones
Peter Bebergal, Aliza Hava Has an Axe to Grind
Hugh Behm-Steinberg, On Jewish Writing
David Stromberg, A Will to Powerlessness: Aimee Bender's Willful Creatures
January 2007
Moshe Ron, Protection
Rachel Barenblat, Ari Weller is in the Happiness Business
Alexander Sharone, Like an Eco-Kosher Jewish Farmer Led to Slaughter
Mordecai Drache, Start Making Sense: The "Elaborate Nonsense" of Poles, Jews, and the Holocaust
Jay Michaelson, Zeek is not a Gay Magazine (but it is Out)
Peter Bebergal, Ask a Jew a Question and Get a Y-Love Answer
Ruth Knafo Setton, The Orange Came First
December 2006
Translations by Itzchak Marmorstein. Introduction by Rachel Barenblat, Rav Kook: Poet of Renewal
Jay Michaelson, Religion and Insanity
Darra Goldstein, Cooking up Community with the Jews of Turkmenistan
Jehanne Dubrow, Shulamith Speaks
Peter Bebergal, Talat: Music That Won't Get Lost
Nurit Zarhi, untitled
David Stromberg, The Unadulterated Projectionist
Nathalie Stephens, Broyer as with Centuries or Meat
November 2006
Stephen Hazan Arnoff, South of the Border: Talking Peoplehood with Yossi Abramowitz
Abraham Mezrich, To See a Face is to Accept the Kingdom of Heaven
Jay Michaelson, Kashrut and Nonduality
Jerome Eric Copulsky, Boruchov Street
Dan Friedman, Funny Antisemitism is Good for the Jews
Susan H. Case, Bzura
Hedva Harehavi, When She Goes Out Alone
The Editors, Welcome to the New Zeek
October 2006
Ilya Kaminsky, First Ending of the Fairytale
Stephen Hazan Arnoff , In Memoriam: Welcome to Bob Dylan's "Modern Times"
Jay Michaelson, Yom Kippur and Nonduality
Raucha Mayim, God on Ecstasy
Shaun Levin, Parallel Worlds: Some Hasidic Tales
Chanel Dubofsky, What Keeps Us Awake
Dan Armon, The Apple, the Cucumber, and the Plum
September 2006
Dr. Dan Friedman, What is Terrorism, and Why We Need to Define It
Eliyahu Alpern, Tsfat: Images of the Aftermath
Rachel Zucker, Everyone Who Goes There Says You Can’t Imagine
Ruth Blumbert, In Time
Elana Dweck, Candles of 9/11
Joshua Liebman (and colleague), Creeds are the Ashes from the Fire of Religion
Deborah S. Greenhut, How I Live. With Terror.
August 2006
Jay Michaelson, Spirituality in a Time of Seriousness: Levels and Religion
Sascha Gottschalk, My Life as a Jewish Hare Krishna Skinhead
Nava Lubelski, Portfolio: Nava Lubelski
Seth Harwood, Don Flamenco’s Finest Round
Miodrag Kojadinović , Now the beautiful boys ...
Alicia Jo Rabins, Tisha B'Av
Esther Nussbaum , Biography as Destiny: Eva Hesse at the Jewish Museum
July 2006
Stephen Hazan Arnoff, Artneuland: Israeli Art without Borders
Yoav Fisher, Israeli-American
Shin Shifra, Summer
Abby Glogower, Camp Stone Tetherball
Jeffrey Green, Shiatsu
Jay Michaelson, My Journey to Flexidoxy - or, At Home on the Slippery Slope
Elizabeth Isadora Gold, Pogrom Pop: T Cooper's Lipshitzes
June 2006
Jay Michaelson, Fear of Fun
Stephen Hazan Arnoff , Live By No Man's Code: The Religious Forms of Philip Roth's "Everyman"
Peter Bebergal, Contemporary Psychedelia: From Transcendence to Immanence
Leah Koenig, Goldbergers and Cheeseburgers: Food and Particularism among American Jews
Sarah Lefton, Voting Kinky: The Politics of Ridicule
Rahel Chalfi, The Water Queen of Jerusalem
David Goldstein, Waters of Jerusalem
Yoseph Leib, The Tree of Life
May 2006
Luke Dzmura, Aliyah: Trans(Per)forming Jewish Ritual
Dr. Michael Shurkin, France’s Jewish Prophets: Alain Finkielkraut, Albert Memmi, and the Looming Crisis of Liberalism
Asher Reich, A Different Sensation
Meghan Adler, Day and Night Dreams
Irene de la Torre, Waiting for Broza
Yashar-El Emunah, An Encounter with Truth
Sara Sherbill, Leaving Homeland
Corie Feiner, Nomad Land
Miriam Sagan, Jews of the Mystic River
April 2006
Dr. Jonathan Garb, The Power and the Glory: A Critique of "New Age" Kabbalah
Jeremy Mullem, With A Strong Hand And An Outstretched Arm
Esther Solomon, Move Over Starbucks: Israel’s “Upside Down” Coffee Saga
Sarah Glover, Remembering Miriam: Beth Grossman's "Our Mother Mary Found"
Leah Koenig, Tribal-Princess Barbie
Joseph Dobkin, David won't read Howl
Jay Michaelson, The Freedom of Being
March 2006
Emily Nepon, Wrestling with Esther: Purim Spiels, Gender, and Political Dissidence
Basmat Hazan Arnoff, The Piyyut is Jewish Soul Music
Joanna Steinhardt, Something that isn't war
Jay Michaelson, Flakes
Israel Har, A SOUR PICKLE THE ANGEL OF DEATH
Stephen E. Tabachnick, My Dear Son Franz
February 2006
Jay Michaelson, Friends in High Places: An Interview with Congressmen Barney Frank and Gary Ackerman
Robbie Gringras, What Happens Next?
Valerie Saturen, The Other Zionist Conspiracy: A History of Christian Zionism
Ruth Knafo Setton, Holy Thighs
Julie Blattberg, What's the Frequency, Joshua?
Jeremy Mullem, The Nazi in the Nursing Home
January 2006
Jay Michaelson, Christmas in Jerusalem
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, A parable on the state of the Jewish mythic world after my hard drive crashed
Dan Friedman, Dear Mr. Pinter
Elisha Porat, Carobs
Hanan Harchol, The Nuclear Physicist Gives his Son a Haircut
Issues from 2005
Issues from 2004