A story by Joseph Allen Boone.
Unbinding the Particular
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Reviewing James A. Diamond’s Jewish Theology Unbound, Aaron Hughes writes that the goal of the book is to recover “a—not the—philosophical theology that emerges from Jewish sources.”
Arts & Cultural Critique
Coopting the Beatles
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Peter Gabel argues that, in coopting songs from the 1960s, advertisers not only increase their profits but also strip the songs of their transcendental sense of meaning and purpose.
Arts & Cultural Critique
The Voice We Need Now: Whitman at 200
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Herbert Levine remembers Walt Whitman on the 200th anniversary of his birth: his “democratic wisdom is as relevant today as when it was written.”
Arts & Cultural Critique
GOD OPTIONAL
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“Blessed be the nameless, blessed the naming. Blessed the Unnamable un-naming itself.” A new poem from Rodger Kamenetz.
Arts & Cultural Critique
SHLOSHIM (thirty days)
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“I had a memory once but it was replaced by crumbs of stumbling music the false notes I sang to you. That horizon has no sun.” A new poem from Rodger Kamenetz.
Arts & Cultural Critique
The Accidental Activist
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Phillip Barcio details how the media falsely labeled Michael Rakowitz as the 2019 Whitney Biennial protester, then created the conditions they described.
Arts & Cultural Critique
That’s That and Not That
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“Boys and girls, / I believe in mysteries, / what the Greeks called music.” A new poem from Stanley Moss.
Arts & Cultural Critique
THE DAY AFTER THE DAY OF ATONEMENT
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“No one could find the tiny hole in her belly where the invisible jets the visible. Would an earthquake reveal her living parts?” A new poem from Rodger Kamenetz.
Fiction & Poetry Articles
Matrimonial Agency
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She fumbled for the bedside lamp as her husband asked who was it now, for the love of Pete, and what made college students think they could wake up their professors in the middle of the night. She kissed his forehead and told him it was probably one of those wrong numbers again. People should really know better than to drink and dial, she said, knowing that her little joke, like previous attempts at cheerful intimacy, would most likely fall, to use a biblical expression, on uncircumcised ears. He rubbed his nose and mumbled something into his pillow, rolled over and resumed snoring, first softly, like a baby, then with rapidly increasing vigor. She cupped the phone in both hands and whispered a hesitated hello into the receiver.
Arts & Cultural Critique
THE PROGRESS: In a Sukkah in Paris
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“Bless the rooster who understands dawn. Who has good sense to read new light on its toe.” A new poem from Rodger Kamenetz.
Politics & Society
Transcending Trauma
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Martha Sonnenberg reviews Rabbi Tirzah Firestone’s new book Wounds into Wisdom and argues that it helps us recognize “the ways in which we and others are affected by trauma, and what this may mean for healing the world.”
Arts & Cultural Critique
Revelations
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“And the moment I was able to look them / in the eye, they opened theirs, // as surprised as I was to find themselves alive.” A new poem from Jon Swan.
Arts & Cultural Critique
The Machine
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“someone came back / from the edge of the world […] / chanting the word tolerance / over and over, as if / that would change anything.” A new poem from Steven Kleinman.
Graphic Eugene Debs
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Martha Sonnenberg reviews this new graphic biography of Eugene V. Debs and argues that the book’s strength lies in how it connects social theory to political activism.