The author expresses disappointment with the statement released by the Association of Jewish Studies (AJS) following the recent violence in Israel. The state...

"Satmar, American-Style" discusses two books that challenge common perceptions of the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn. "A Fortress in Brooklyn" argues t...

In "Marx and the Jewish Fingerprint Question" by Shlomo Avineri, the discussion revolves around Karl Marx's Jewish origins and their influence on his work. T...

In "The Sephardic Mystique," the focus is on the 19th-century German Jewish obsession with Sephardic culture, contrasting it to traditional Ashkenazic Jewish...

Olga Litvak's book, "Haskalah: The Romantic Movement in Judaism," challenges the conventional understanding of the Haskalah as a Jewish Enlightenment movemen...