Winter Issue!
The issue we’ve been working on since October 7: memories of Kfar Aza, a symposium considering and reconsidering our beliefs, newly translated poems from Hebrew, reviews, and much more.
- Neta Stahl
- Mijal Bitton, Leah Sarna, and more
- Amichai Chasson
- Malka Z. Simkovich
- Ilan Troen
- Benjamin Balint
- Allan Arkush
- Noah Millman
- Matti Friedman
- Yosef Lindell
- Jonathan Karp
- Reviel Netz
- Abraham Socher
- Adam Kirsch
- S.Y. Agnon
- Cole S. Aronson
- Shai Secunda
- Yehuda Halevi
Total Eclipse of the Brakha
Do we make a blessing on a solar eclipse? Well, that depends if eclipses are evil or not.
“Whoever Is Hungry, Come and Eat”? From the Babylonian Poor to the Ashkenazi Elijah
Why do we begin the seder by inviting “whoever is hungry” to come and eat? Aren’t the guests already at the table? And why do we do it in Aramaic? It has something to do with Babylonian magic bowls . . .
The Last Word
"Oh homeland don't you wonder on your captives, / who call to you, the ones left of your pastures."
The First Maggid—How Memory Made the Jews
3,500 years ago, Israelite parents explained wonders to their children and created the very first Maggid story.
The Last Word
"Oh homeland don't you wonder on your captives, / who call to you, the ones left of your pastures."
Past Issues
Issue No. 55
Fall 2023
Issue No. 54
Summer 2023
Issue No. 53
Spring 2023
Issue No. 52