In this Rabbi Reflection column, Rabbi Jodie Gordon of Hevreh of Southern Berkshire ponders the current situation in Israel and the Diaspora, wondering what "the day after" might look like for the Jewish people.
Support Jewish Books! In this essay, Howie Stier offers an appreciation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's 1983 novel "The Penitent" - a story, he writes, that is "supremely relevant to us now."
The eighth book by poet, essayist, and visual artist Karen Chase, "Two Tales: Jamali Kamali and ZundelState," explores the nature of dreams and passion in stories set in the distant past and the distant future, finding that the things that keep us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.