Is it Time for Shylock to Retire?
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: A Play For All Time? By Steve Frank Every year brings new productions of Shakespeare’s controversial
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: A Play For All Time? By Steve Frank Every year brings new productions of Shakespeare’s controversial
A visionary to some, a troublemaker to others, Anat Hoffman is leading the charge for women to be allowed to read the Torah at the Western Wall. The executive director of the Israel Reform Action Committee and spokesperson for Women of the Wall has become the face of the fight for religious freedom in Israel.
Jon D. Levenson reviews Ronald Hendel’s new book, The Book of Genesis: A Biography.
Kaskel’s Chutzpah By Gary Stein “Your people must leave all the villages,” the government official barked. “The district
t’s raining again, and Estrella takes her green umbrella with her. Six, seven years ago, when she could afford to
Palak paneer, chana masala and the egregiously treif-sounding butter chicken may not scream “Jewish” and were highly unlikely to grace
One of the first things that six-year-old Alysa Stanton noticed when her family moved into a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in
Oliver Sacks opens the door of his lower Manhattan apartment himself because his assistant, Kate Edgar, is in the emergency
A Bug’s Life 2.0 Rebecca Miller Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2012, $26.00, pp.337 Jacob’s Folly is the fantastically original story
The Intersection of Politics and Satire. A Moment Symposium Robert Mankoff Political satire is ridicule dedicated to exposing the difference
Madeleine Albright became secretary of state in 1997. Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton followed. Has foreign policy become women’s work?