Arts & Culture
From Islamic manuscripts to Quaker bonnets to Torah scrolls.
Israeli film used to be almost exclusively—and aggressively—secular. With the rise of the ultra-Orthodox director Rama Burshtein and others, that’s changing.
Where else than within the great traditions of our religions do we find the most cogent principles for helping individuals stuck in the psychic entropy of addiction?
Translated into English for the first time, The Wandering Jew Has Arrived captures the breadth of Jewish life from London to Eastern Europe to Palestine just before it all changed.
The tools of reason, science, and common sense are not always accessible to an addict, and may harm him or her when they are.
A rare film that takes a sympathetic view of ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Macroagressions and self-loathing.
Guess who else was obsessed with cultural purity?
Modern medicine, psychology, and behavioral science can help some addicts. But for the underlying spiritual condition, an older set of tools—like Judaism’s—has more to offer.
Jewishness was the “hand inside the puppet” of Christian Europe.
“Seven lamps, one by one, in imitation of the planets.”
“The Gift of the Mishnah.”
“Cafeteria Catholics” are adding Shabbat to their dinner plates.
What Fauda gets right.