From the Editor | The Miracle That Is Jewish Jokes
Believe it or not, I grew up in a Jewish family that didn’t tell jokes.
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Jul
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Jun
The Conversation
Your spring issue addressing community today (“What Is Community Today?” Spring 2021) could not have arrived at a timelier moment.
28
Jun
Essay | Searching for Solomon Cohen
Own a piece of history! This was what the listing for the “Solomon Cohen House,” built in 1875, urged prospective buyers to do.
21
Jun
Poem | The Season When My Life Turned
I have been the first person awake in my house every morning of my life.
21
Jun
Fiction | The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land
Simcha was the man who sold air from the Holy Land, not to be confused with those unimaginative con artists who sold oil from the Oily Land or water from the Dead Sea.
14
Jun
Jewish Word | What a Schlep!
In 2008, a group of Jewish Democratic political operatives had an idea: If young Jewish voters traveled to Florida, they could convince their hesitant grandparents to vote for Barack Obama, thus ensuring a win in the vital swing state.
14
Jun
Talk of the Table | Meatballs Cursed by Jews
Among the pages of a medieval Middle Eastern cookbook lies a 600-year-old recipe with a title equal parts perplexing and alarming: “Meatballs Cursed by Jews.”
14
Jun
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Jun
Memoir | A Secret Identity Revealed
Renowned international lawyer Allan Gerson writes about discovering his secret identity and uncovering his family’s past.
09
Jun
Ask the Rabbis | Does Absolute Evil Exist, and If So, What Does It Look Like Today?
Evil was introduced the moment God looked at Creation and “saw that it was good!” For the existence of good implies the existence of evil, just as big implies small and cold implies hot.