How I Became a Jewsuit
Sarit Kattan Gribetz Reflects on Jewish-Christian Difference in the 21st Century In 1962, my grandfather, a Swiss Jew from Zurich, sent a letter
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Holy Humanitarians: Controversies in Christian Philanthropy
David C. Kirkpatrick reviews Heather D. Curtis’ Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid Many American evangelicals encounter the faces and stories of children
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Byzantine Worship in Captivity
Valentina Covaci reviews Daniel Galadza Liturgy and Byzantinization in Jerusalem The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is far from the composed reverence
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The Wandering You: Jewish & American Identity
Erin Faigin on Shari Rabin’s Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America It was the opinion of Edwards, that the
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Crime and Consciousness in Modern Mexico
Matteo Cantarello on Pablo Piccato’s A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico Today, crime speaks a universal language. Every day and
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The Critics versus Queen
If we’re lucky, we’ve killed a man. A self that has to pass away for something new to be born. People are buying
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Reader in a Lost World
Fantasies, like dreams, can surprise you. My fantasy is always the same. The sun streams over my shoulder—that crisp, new light of early
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Does Law Disdain Literature?
Andrew Kau on The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 In a 2014 interview with The Harvard Gazette Stephen Greenblatt recounted his
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Antisemitism Is Our Problem
Editor Samuel Loncar Reflects on Christianity’s Antisemitic Legacy Tree of Life Synagogue Daniel Stein Joyce Fienberg Richard Gottfried Rose Mallinger Jerry Rabinowitz brothers,
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Border Crossings: Myths and Memories of Tolerance
Leslie Harkema Reviews Eric Calderwood’s Colonial al-Andalus This past summer, migrants from throughout Africa and elsewhere continued to make the journey to Ceuta and
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