Past Issues
Summer 2024
FROM THE EDITOR
Jewish on Campus
Claire E. Sufrin
JEWISH ON CAMPUS
Centering Jewish Identity Development (Even) When There is Antisemitism on Campus
Adena Kirstein
How and How Not to Help on Campus
Seth Goren
Explorers on Campus: A Model for Education, Relationship, and Reconciliation on the Day After
Benjamin Berger
Student Voice: Celebrating Simultaneous Truths
Stephen Bartell
What is Happening in the Humanities? Theory, Politics, and Protest
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Leadership and Jewish Peoplehood: A Conversation with Marc Baker and Lishi Baker
Claire E. Sufrin
American Jews and Our Universities: Back to Basics
Josh Feigelson
Student Voice: War 101
Issy Lyons
How a Multigenerational Community Can Transform College Students into Jewish Adults
Lauren Cohen Fisher, David Freidenreich, and Rachel Isaacs
Student Voice: Building a Bayit: Holding the Particular and Personal with the Universal and Communal
Lilah Peck
Student Voice: Challenging the Walls Around My Jewish Identity
Chana Fisher
Spring 2024
FROM THE EDITOR
Data
Ari Y. Kelman
Diaspora
Justus Baird
Doubt
Gordon Tucker
Learning
Erin Leib Smokler
Mortality
Shlomo Brody
Nature
Mara H. Benjamin
Obligation
Elana Stein Hain
Praxis
Joshua Ladon
Rabbi
Yehuda Kurtzer
Secularism
Daniel May
Spirituality
Hannah Kapnik Ashar & Naama Sadan
Tradition & Traditionalism
Meir Buzaglo translated by Levi Morrow
Fall 2022
Embracing the Jewish Intellectual Tradition
Liberal Zionism & the Idea of the Idea
Yehuda Kurtzer
Reclaiming Mamlakhtiyut: The Road to an Inclusive Israeli Identity
Masua Sagiv
Zionism and Power: The Challenge of Our Time
Donniel Hartman
Ne’emanut: Placing Relationships at the Center
Mijal Bitton
Communal Rebuilding after Sexual Abuse: Beyond the Limits of Teshuvah
Meirav Jones, Joshua Ladon, Elana Stein Hain, Claire E. Sufrin, & Sarah Wolf
Variations on the Shema
Samuel Fleischacker
Songs of War
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
Reviewed by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Radical Amazement
Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement
Reviewed by Reuven Kimelman
Beyond the Two-State Solution
Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel
Reviewed by Yoav Schaefer
SPECIAL EDITION
FROM THE EDITOR
Torah for a Time of War: A Moral Map for an Impossible Present
Yehuda Kurtzer
From Mourning to Resilience: Community Rabbis Face Israel at War
Mishael Zion
Mourning and Suffering in this Moment
Leora Batnitzky
On Redeeming Captives
Mikhael Manekin
Watching War: This Moment in the History of Israel-Diaspora Relations
Geoffrey Levin
A Shelter for Your Sorrows: Multifaith Chaplaincy in a Time of War
Katja Vehlow
We Need to Stay in the Conversation
Sarah Wolf
Spring 2022
Reading Psalms as the Water Rises
Mara H. Benjamin
The One and the Many: On Comparing the Holocaust
James Loeffler
Why is America Different? The Price and Promise of Jewish Emancipation Paul Mendes-Flohr
Why Addressing Antisemitism Requires Fighting for Justice Isaac Luria
Our Technology Sickness—and How to Heal It
Micah Goodman
Roundtable: Jewish Values and Social Media
David Zvi Kalman, Mordechai Lightstone, Sara Wolkenfeld
An Interview with Martha C. Nussbaum
Benjamin Balint
Book Review: Children of the Heart
Dara Horn
Book Review: A Parable of Pluralism
Adam Kirsch
Book Review: Contradiction and Its Discontents
Zachary Truboff
Book Review: Finding Refuge
Hila Ratzabi
Poetry: Lamentation
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
Portfolio
Sandra Valabregue
Fall 2023
FROM THE EDITOR
Addressing Danger and Ensuring Safety
DANGER & SAFETY
“A Natural Act of Vengeance”: Settler Violence and Two Types of Jewish Fundamentalism
Tomer Persico
Free Speech: A Conversation with Bret Stephens
Claire E. Sufrin
Privilege & Vulnerability: Identity, Context, & Perceptions of Antisemitism in America
Lilah Shapiro
The Grass Widow
Mat and Julie Tonti
PRESCRIPTION
Autonomy, Automatons, Golems, and Dybbuks: Models for AI
Michael M. Rosen
CLOSE READ
Holy! Holy! Holy!
Reimagining the Holy Tongue and the Kedushah Prayer
Wendy Zierler
In the Image of God: Amiram Shamir’s Children’s Chapel
Rachel Federman
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Equal Funding as Equal Standing: The Orthodox Jewish Advocacy Project
Michael A. Helfand
IN REVIEW
Making Jewish Education Vibrant
Joshua Ladon
Fall 2021
Shaming, Disagreement & Purposeful Difference
Christine Hayes
Liberal Zionism and the Troubled Committed
Donniel Hartman
Responding to the Israel-Hamas War
Roundtable
Exclusive Online Content
How a Lover of Wisdom Returns
Yehudah Mirsky
Can Synagogues Revitalize American Democracy?
Michael G. Holzman
String Theory: Proximity, Pluralism & the American Eruv
Joshua Ladon
How to Remember the Shoah
Michal Govrin
An Interview with Peter Cole
Dan Friedman
Book Review: Home and History
Nancy Sinkoff
Book Review: The Odd Couple
Vivian Liska
Book Review: Humor and Haunting
Rebecca Sacks
Book Review: Ozick’s Excavations
Beth Kissileff
Poem: Why Don’t You Write in Hebrew?
Aviya Kushner
Portfolio
Ester Schneider
Spring 2023
FROM THE EDITOR
JEWS & LAW
A Choosing People
Elliot Cosgrove
In Defense of Surrender in Liberal Jewish Life
Leon A. Morris
Responding to the Dobbs Decision: American Jews & Religious Freedom
Isaac Weiner
Civil Law vs. Halakhah in Israeli Courts: The Case of Gender Equality
Yofi Tirosh
Is There a God in This Halakhah?
Micha’el Rosenberg
The Mikveh Rebellion that Wasn’t: Recovering Ritual Space Beyond Jewish Law
Meirav Jones
PRESCRIPTION
Fear, Fury, and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Israel
Leah Solomon
How Do You Say Tikkun Olam in Hebrew? Israel and International Development
Dyonna Ginsburg
CLOSE READ
Storytelling at the Seder: Lesaper, Lehaggid, and the Purpose of the Haggadah
Joshua Cahan
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Lessons on American Antisemitism from the Grand Union Hotel
Zev Eleff
FEATURED ARTIST
Squirrel Hill Eruv
Ben Schachter
Spring 2021
Is Jewish Continuity Sexist?
Mijal Bitton
What Happened to Jewish Pluralism?
Yehuda Kurtzer
An Interview with Michael Sandel
Benjamin Balint
Our Common Humanity
Avi Sagi
Teaching Israel and the Pandemic
Symposium on Israel Education
Open Society, Closed Religion
Guy Stroumsa
Home, Endangered
Elana Stein Hain
Book Review: Daring to Know
Dan Friedman
Poem: Where Stories Come From
Ida Maze
(translated by Miriam Udel)