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New Wave, Old Country: In the new issue of @JRBooks, I look at one of the best films ever made about Israel and at its director -- the elusive French master Chris Marker -- and consider what has changed since 1960. jewishreviewofbooks.com/contemporary-i…

Who was the Jewish Sherlock Holmes? Can a Jewish comic book turn into high art? Is Cynthia Ozick’s NEW short story one of her best?? All your questions are answered in the pages of the latest JRB! jewishreviewofbooks.com/issue/winter-2…

Very pleased to be in the latest issue of @JRBooks, talking about Jews and WWI.

Podcasts Full of Straw: Tucker, Fuentes, the algorithm & that good old-fashioned antisemitism. (A Winter Issue preview.) open.substack.com/pub/jewishrevi…

"I know a lot of people who like to read, but none of them likes to read as much as Ilana Kurshan." jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewish-life/19…

#Archives The tradition to stay up all night studying on Shavuot is far more well-known than the tradition to do so on Hoshana Rabbah. Neither would have been possible without Kabbalah and caffeine. jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2286/…

Fifteen years ago, Joshua Foer slept on the ground of Union Square Park, sheltered by a cardboard sukkah. jewishreviewofbooks.com/american-jewry…

Shabbat Shalom! Read the latest issue of JRB today: jewishreviewofbooks.com/issue/fall-202…

#Archives And should we add a confession on Yom Kippur “for the sin of opening browser windows of distraction”? On Aristotle’s akrasia and Maimonides’s teshuvah. jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2728/…

From the moment Eli Sharabi is taken into Gaza, the reader of Hostage is sucked into the dark tunnel vision of captivity. jewishreviewofbooks.com/contemporary-i…

Rampaging robots, Sukkahs made of glass, and the worst Shabbos dinner ever. The latest JRB is here! jewishreviewofbooks.com/issue/fall-2025

Il Duce and the Jews open.substack.com/pub/jewishrevi…

Reverent Unknowing open.substack.com/pub/jewishrevi…

UCLA's 6 Million Dollar Mistake open.substack.com/pub/jewishrevi…

jewishreviewofbooks.com/literature/188… "I can’t and won’t reread: What’s done is done. Print is writing’s final fate."

Don't miss the latest issue of JRB! We've got Jewish riots, haunted houses, and Cynthia Ozick's Old Country chic. jewishreviewofbooks.com/issue/summer-2…

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In the talmudic era, many Jewish legal documents were standardized. Even magic bowls inscribed with methods to divorce a demon. jewishreviewofbooks.com/uncategorized/…