Four questions? Make it four statements.

“Great contributions to the moral code of mankind.”

The wise son as Hannibal.

On leaven and legal fictions.

Learning from a rejected liturgy.

A grandfather’s postcards tell of his last days under the Nazis.

A correspondence from the revived gulag.

A lesson from a heroic priest and the New York Times.

And what it has to do with Passover.

Joy or sorrow between Passover and Shavuot?

Yannai’s “It Came to Pass at Midnight.”

The “haggadah in a new dress.”