Mushaira: Islam, Poetry, and South Asia
Abdul Manan Bhat on Ali Khan Mahmudabad Poetry gatherings have a magic of nearness, an immediacy and intimacy of sorts. The intimacy between
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Moroccan Jews: Perception and Reality
Ilan Benattar on Emily Benichou Gottreich The street signs are often tri-lingual: Arabic, French, and Amazigh, the latter being written in the Tifinagh
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“A Small Good Thing” An Interview with John Wilson
Samuel Loncar in conversation with John Wilson In the early age of COVID-19, I got to sit down with John Wilson to talk
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The Ramayana and The Birth of Poetry
Amit Majmudar on poetry and the incarnation of the divine. Consider Punch. He wears jester’s red and carries a stick the size of
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Preserving Religious Freedoms in a Pluralistic Society
John Inazu on Robert Louis Wilken The Supreme Court has strengthened an important constitutional protection for religious institutions. Known as the ministerial exception,
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Bari Weiss Says Wear Your Kippah
Ari Blaff on Bari Weiss Fighting anti-Semitism rarely comes with fashion advice. However, The New York Times columnist Bari Weiss suggests otherwise in
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Evangelical Women Celebrities: A Crisis of Authority
Erica Ramirez on Kate Bowler In The Preacher’s Wife, Kate Bowler introduces readers to a group of powerful evangelical women leaders. Through this
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The Deep Humanity of Jewish Law
Zalman Rothschild on Moshe Halbertal Jewish law considers the topic of doubt worthy of occupying an entire category of law unto itself, and
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The Real History of Fake News: An Interview with Vincent DiGirolamo
Eve M. Kahn Interviews Vincent DiGirolamo Vincent DiGirolamo has devoted almost 30 years to documenting the lives of American children who hawked newspapers
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How I Learned White Supremacy
Kristopher Norris on Robert. P. Jones At its 1995 annual meeting, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) apologized for its racism. The largest Protestant
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