Fall/Winter 2025
FROM THE EDITOR
Two Years Since 10/7
Claire E. Sufrin
REBUILDING
Our Fragile Tents: Community, Consent, and Care
Yehuda Kurtzer
Rebuilding Coalitions Toward a Just Future for All
Abigail Levine
Centering Our Youth as a Bridge Across the Generations
Adina H. Frydman
Devekut in the Age of Uncertainty
Jonathan Zasloff
ZIONISM AND ANTI-ZIONISM
Conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi: The Responsibilities of an Israeli Writer
Yardena Schwartz
When Is Anti-Zionism Antisemitic? Getting Beyond the Polemics
Ethan Katz
American Antizionism
Shaul Kelner
A Zionism for the Future
Chaim Seidler-Feller
OVERCOMING POLARIZATION
We Have Sinned, We Have Transgressed, We Have Polarized
Alon Shalev
In Praise of Compromise: Two Models for Navigating Conflicting Values
Joshua Kullock
What Holds Israeli Society Together and What Holds It Back
Shoshana Cohen
Summer 2025
FROM THE EDITOR
Concerning Community
Claire E. Sufrin
THE STORIES WE TELL
It Is Time to Take the Palestinian Narrative More Seriously
Michael Koplow
Reframing the Zionist Narrative in Recognition of Palestinian Experience
Joshua Levisohn
Telling Israel’s Story in the Community of Nations
Conversation with Tal Becker by Abigail Pogrebin
Two Inward Turns: Canadian Jews Since Multiculturalism, Since October 8, and Since Trump’s Annexationist Threat
David S. Koffman
BOUNDARIES
Jewish Marriage and Intermarriage: A Pastoral Perspective
Aaron Brusso
When Community Becomes a Zero-Sum Game
Deborah Barer
A Sword at the Entrance: Pluralism, Polarization, and the Future of Jewish Community
Benjamin Berger
“In the Way that They Grow”: An Old-New Approach to Building a Community of Mitzvot and Obligation
Guy Austrian
Lifting the Ban? Spinoza and the Boundaries of Belonging
Daniel B. Schwartz
ACROSS AN OCEAN
An Invitation to Rise from Our Communal Mourning
Na’ama Levitz Applbaum
We Must Renew Our Commitment to Israel’s Defining Values
Tomer Persico
Hope Across the Atlantic
Masua Sagiv
In Search of and in Need of Knesset Yisrael
Leon A. Morris
Spring 2025
FROM THE EDITOR
Jewish Ethics in Theory & Practice
Claire E. Sufrin
THE ISRAEL HAMAS WAR
Morality in Times of Fear
Donniel Hartman
Our Duty to Support the Hostage Deal with Hamas
Yitzhak Benbaji
Hearing the Cries of Others and Doing Good: A Reinterpretation
Elisheva Baumgarten
The Power of a Community to Diminish Suffering in the World: A Midrash
Liora Eilon
Musar as a Challenge to the Justification of Mass Killing
Geoffrey Claussen
JEWISH ETHICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The Place of Jewish Studies in an Era of Protest
Flora Cassen
Civics Education for Jews: A Conversation with Mark Gottlieb and Rivka Press Schwartz
Aaron Dorfman
Hope and Grief in an Age of Climate Change
Julia Watts Belser
Jonah
Jill Hammer
Is Doing Good Always Good? The Ethics of Contemporary Jewish Philanthropy
Andrès Spokoiny
Permission and Obligation: A Jewish Paradigm for Care
Sara Labaton
The End of Tikkun Olam
Daniel Burg
Creating Communities of Inquiry, Allyship, and Ethical Holocaust Education
Jill Abney, Janice W. Fernheimer, Lauren Hill, and Karen Petrone
Unshackling our Interpretive Practices: Rereading Rabbinic Slavery
Marjorie Lehman and Mira Wasserman
Fall/Winter 2024
FROM THE EDITOR
On Jewish Leadership
Claire E. Sufrin
ON JEWISH LEADERSHIP
The Learning Leader: Orchestrating Organizational and Personal Change
B. Elka Abrahamson
On These Things the World Stands: Leading with Religious Vision
Avi Killip
Doubt, Empathy, and Hope: Leadership for the Israel of Tomorrow
Ronit Heyd
Jewish Communal Leadership: A Board Chair’s Perspective
Alan Solow
Mission, Vision, and Jewish Philanthropic Leadership: A Conversation with Rachel Garbow Monroe and Paula B. Pretlow
Claire E. Sufrin
Do Lay Leaders Actually Lead?
Joshua Ladon and Jo-Ellen Pozner
Spiritual Leadership in Israel
After October 7
Avi Dabush
Translated by Levi Morrow
Relational Rabbinics: Reframing the Role of Female Clergy
Rachel Kohl Finegold
Picture This: Three Very Different Views of Jewish Social Justice Leadership
Marc Dollinger
CLOSE READS
How to Read the Torah from a Trans Perspective (Even If You Aren’t Transgender)
Joy Ladin
Rereading the Story of the Oven of Akhnai: From Interpretive Rights to Interpretive Responsibilities
Jon A. Levisohn
A Tale of Two Women: Standing at the Center of the Talmud
Jane Kanarek
Summer 2024
FROM THE EDITOR
Jewish on Campus
Claire E. Sufrin
JEWISH ON CAMPUS
Centering Jewish Identity Development (Even) When There is Antisemitism on Campus
Adena Kirstein
How and How Not to Help on Campus
Seth Goren
Explorers on Campus: A Model for Education, Relationship, and Reconciliation on the Day After
Benjamin Berger
Student Voice: Celebrating Simultaneous Truths
Stephen Bartell
What is Happening in the Humanities? Theory, Politics, and Protest
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Leadership and Jewish Peoplehood: A Conversation with Marc Baker and Lishi Baker
Claire E. Sufrin
American Jews and Our Universities: Back to Basics
Josh Feigelson
Student Voice: War 101
Issy Lyons
How a Multigenerational Community Can Transform College Students into Jewish Adults
Lauren Cohen Fisher, David Freidenreich, and Rachel Isaacs
Student Voice: Building a Bayit: Holding the Particular and Personal with the Universal and Communal
Lilah Peck
Student Voice: Challenging the Walls Around My Jewish Identity
Chana Fisher
Spring 2024
FROM THE EDITOR
Data
Ari Y. Kelman
Diaspora
Justus Baird
Doubt
Gordon Tucker
Learning
Erin Leib Smokler
Mortality
Shlomo Brody
Nature
Mara H. Benjamin
Obligation
Elana Stein Hain
Praxis
Joshua Ladon
Rabbi
Yehuda Kurtzer
Secularism
Daniel May
Spirituality
Hannah Kapnik Ashar & Naama Sadan
Tradition & Traditionalism
Meir Buzaglo translated by Levi Morrow
SPECIAL EDITION
FROM THE EDITOR
Torah for a Time of War: A Moral Map for an Impossible Present
Yehuda Kurtzer
From Mourning to Resilience: Community Rabbis Face Israel at War
Mishael Zion
Mourning and Suffering in this Moment
Leora Batnitzky
On Redeeming Captives
Mikhael Manekin
Watching War: This Moment in the History of Israel-Diaspora Relations
Geoffrey Levin
A Shelter for Your Sorrows: Multifaith Chaplaincy in a Time of War
Katja Vehlow
We Need to Stay in the Conversation
Sarah Wolf
Fall 2023
FROM THE EDITOR
Addressing Danger and Ensuring Safety
DANGER & SAFETY
“A Natural Act of Vengeance”: Settler Violence and Two Types of Jewish Fundamentalism
Tomer Persico
Free Speech: A Conversation with Bret Stephens
Claire E. Sufrin
Privilege & Vulnerability: Identity, Context, & Perceptions of Antisemitism in America
Lilah Shapiro
The Grass Widow
Mat and Julie Tonti
PRESCRIPTION
Autonomy, Automatons, Golems, and Dybbuks: Models for AI
Michael M. Rosen
CLOSE READ
Holy! Holy! Holy!
Reimagining the Holy Tongue and the Kedushah Prayer
Wendy Zierler
In the Image of God: Amiram Shamir’s Children’s Chapel
Rachel Federman
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Equal Funding as Equal Standing: The Orthodox Jewish Advocacy Project
Michael A. Helfand
IN REVIEW
Making Jewish Education Vibrant
Joshua Ladon
Spring 2023
FROM THE EDITOR
JEWS & LAW
A Choosing People
Elliot Cosgrove
In Defense of Surrender in Liberal Jewish Life
Leon A. Morris
Responding to the Dobbs Decision: American Jews & Religious Freedom
Isaac Weiner
Civil Law vs. Halakhah in Israeli Courts: The Case of Gender Equality
Yofi Tirosh
Is There a God in This Halakhah?
Micha’el Rosenberg
The Mikveh Rebellion that Wasn’t: Recovering Ritual Space Beyond Jewish Law
Meirav Jones
PRESCRIPTION
Fear, Fury, and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Israel
Leah Solomon
How Do You Say Tikkun Olam in Hebrew? Israel and International Development
Dyonna Ginsburg
CLOSE READ
Storytelling at the Seder: Lesaper, Lehaggid, and the Purpose of the Haggadah
Joshua Cahan
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Lessons on American Antisemitism from the Grand Union Hotel
Zev Eleff
FEATURED ARTIST
Squirrel Hill Eruv
Ben Schachter
Fall 2022
Embracing the Jewish Intellectual Tradition
Liberal Zionism & the Idea of the Idea
Yehuda Kurtzer
Reclaiming Mamlakhtiyut: The Road to an Inclusive Israeli Identity
Masua Sagiv
Zionism and Power: The Challenge of Our Time
Donniel Hartman
Ne’emanut: Placing Relationships at the Center
Mijal Bitton
Communal Rebuilding after Sexual Abuse: Beyond the Limits of Teshuvah
Meirav Jones, Joshua Ladon, Elana Stein Hain, Claire E. Sufrin, & Sarah Wolf
Variations on the Shema
Samuel Fleischacker
Songs of War
Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
Reviewed by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Radical Amazement
Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement
Reviewed by Reuven Kimelman
Beyond the Two-State Solution
Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel
Reviewed by Yoav Schaefer
Spring 2022
Reading Psalms as the Water Rises
Mara H. Benjamin
The One and the Many: On Comparing the Holocaust
James Loeffler
Why is America Different? The Price and Promise of Jewish Emancipation Paul Mendes-Flohr
Why Addressing Antisemitism Requires Fighting for Justice Isaac Luria
Our Technology Sickness—and How to Heal It
Micah Goodman
Roundtable: Jewish Values and Social Media
David Zvi Kalman, Mordechai Lightstone, Sara Wolkenfeld
An Interview with Martha C. Nussbaum
Benjamin Balint
Book Review: Children of the Heart
Dara Horn
Book Review: A Parable of Pluralism
Adam Kirsch
Book Review: Contradiction and Its Discontents
Zachary Truboff
Book Review: Finding Refuge
Hila Ratzabi
Poetry: Lamentation
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
Portfolio
Sandra Valabregue
Fall 2021
Shaming, Disagreement & Purposeful Difference
Christine Hayes
Liberal Zionism and the Troubled Committed
Donniel Hartman
Responding to the Israel-Hamas War
Roundtable
Exclusive Online Content
How a Lover of Wisdom Returns
Yehudah Mirsky
Can Synagogues Revitalize American Democracy?
Michael G. Holzman
String Theory: Proximity, Pluralism & the American Eruv
Joshua Ladon
How to Remember the Shoah
Michal Govrin
An Interview with Peter Cole
Dan Friedman
Book Review: Home and History
Nancy Sinkoff
Book Review: The Odd Couple
Vivian Liska
Book Review: Humor and Haunting
Rebecca Sacks
Book Review: Ozick’s Excavations
Beth Kissileff
Poem: Why Don’t You Write in Hebrew?
Aviya Kushner
Portfolio
Ester Schneider
Spring 2021
Is Jewish Continuity Sexist?
Mijal Bitton
What Happened to Jewish Pluralism?
Yehuda Kurtzer
An Interview with Michael Sandel
Benjamin Balint
Our Common Humanity
Avi Sagi
Teaching Israel and the Pandemic
Symposium on Israel Education
Open Society, Closed Religion
Guy Stroumsa
Home, Endangered
Elana Stein Hain
Book Review: Daring to Know
Dan Friedman
Poem: Where Stories Come From
Ida Maze
(translated by Miriam Udel)