Arts & Culture
Catholics and Freemasons join Jews as the villains.
In its embrace of social psychology and “process over politics,” the new hit drama mirrors the mentality that helped produce the disastrous Oslo Accords themselves.
The Women’s Balcony.
Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the synagogue on Sabbath afternoons.
Revisiting Cynthia Ozick’s “Innovation and Redemption.”
Poems of the land of Israel.
Misreading God of Vengeance.
Celia Dropkin’s reflection on humiliation has a surprising resonance.
Contrary to a Times column, the reason people say “he’s Jewish” rather than “he’s a Jew” has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. It’s just a quirk of grammar, and it’s not unique to Jews.
In praise of Chaim Grade.
A Tom Thumb rabbi and a blood libel.
Daniel Deronda and the post-traditional world.