Conversion
When Leopold Weiss turned into Muhammad Asad.
True stories, literary retellings, and a religious response.
Who is Ali Hassan Haliwa?
Muriel Spark in Jerusalem.
The German-Jewish poet embraced “the Great Aristophanes of Heaven.”
Modern freedoms leave us wanting more. The author of our monthly essay joins us and a noted rabbi to talk about how conversion came to be an antidote to liberal restlessness.
Longing to leave liberalism behind, everyone from Catholics to Communists is experimenting with self-transformation. What’s fueling that desire, and is it strong enough to make the break?
The Israeli intellectual joins us to explain his country’s newest conversion controversy, and the underlying tensions it illuminates within Israeli public life.
A political football.
Especially with an election on the way.
Alfonso de Zamora.
From an Amsterdam convert to Maxwell House.
More than just a “tech detox.”
