In a recent essay for Mosaic, Mitchell Rocklin examined the implications of Orthodox Jews’ emerging preference for Republican candidates. Will this trend continue? Will the rest of American Jewry retain its overwhelming and longstanding preference for Democrats? What could lead to a major shift in Jewish voting patterns? Rocklin discusses these questions and others with Jay Lefkowitz, himself the author of an important article on this subject. (Moderated by Eric Cohen. Audio, 45 minutes.)

Reviewing Stranger Than Fiction, a new history of the 20th-century novel, Joseph Epstein draws attention to what’s missing:

A novelist and short-story writer who gets no mention whatsoever in Stranger Than Fiction is Isaac Bashevis Singer. When from time to time I am asked who among the writers of the past half century is likely to be read 50 years from now, Singer’s is the first name that comes to mind. His novels and stories can be sexy, but sex, unlike in many of the novels of Norman Mailer, William Styron, or Philip Roth, is never chiefly about sex. His stories are about that much larger subject, the argument of human beings with God. What Willa Cather and Isaac Bashevis Singer have that too few of the other novelists discussed in Stranger Than Fiction possess are central, important, great subjects.