“I mean religious, not ‘spiritual,’ or ‘transcendental,’ or any other laundered, noncommittal term.”

The Hebrew Teacher.

The legacy of a kabbalist and polymath.

Maya Arad’s good years.

A far cry from the “bland exoticism” of the New York Times.

His work reminds us that fiction can be entertaining, and perhaps should be, even when it is serious.

A novella by the late Israeli writer.

Haim Hazaz’s “The Sermon.”

Y.H. Brenner “sanctified his life through his death and his death through his life.”

Sholem Aleichem meets Quentin Tarantino.

A defense.

The cadences of the Talmud left their mark on Yiddish, and Israeli, speech patterns.

Zalman Shneour.