Religious Diversity vs the Supreme Court?
Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump paid off their debt to the white evangelical community for its political support. And they did so with
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Homosexuality and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy
Paola Tartakoff on Tamar Herzig Jewish converts to Christianity have long evoked visceral responses from Christians and Jews. Many Christians have viewed converts
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David Foster Wallace: Genius?
Samuel Liu on David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace had, in the best and worst sense of this word, a divine compulsion, a
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Storytelling In Indo-Persian Literary Traditions
Aqsa Ijaz on Pasha Mohamad Khan and Tony K. Stewart A society should turn the young into the heirs of history rather than
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The Alchemy of Tuvia Ruebner’s Poetry
Michael Heller on Tuvia Ruebner Tuvia Ruebner is a surviving member of that brilliant generation of Israeli poets, including Yehuda Amichai, Dan Pagis
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When Truth Finds A Home: In The Shelter by Pádraig Ó Tuama
Alexandra Barylski on Pádraig Ó Tuama This is a book about truth. A book about facing the truth of your own life and
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Why Philo Matters
Gregory E. Sterling on Philo of Alexandria “What should I say about Philo whom critics call…the ‘Jewish Plato’?” So said Saint Jerome, who
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America’s Most Cherished and Controversial Right
Ryan T. Woods on Free Speech Of all our democratic values, Americans are most devoted to free speech. A 2015 Rasmussen poll revealed
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In Defense of Childhood
Sammy Kelner on teens, adults, and technology In 1982, Neil Postman argued that the idea of childhood was being destroyed. So too, the
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When Secular Laws and Religious Convictions Collide
Perry Dane on religious freedom, current conflicts, and Martin Buber The recent challenges by some churches and synagogues to COVID related state restrictions
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