Essays

Can We Talk? Jewish Book Week 2012

Saturday, Feb 18. It’s the opening event of Jewish Book Week 2012, and Simon Schama, Linda Grant and Eva Hoffman are sitting onstage, but I’m not looking at them: I’m gazing in mild disbelief at outgoing JBW director... [Read more]

Tales of Freedom and Imagination

While a new all-star Haggadah plays it safe, others reinvent the Passover story as a call to action “The point of a seder is to engage people; it’s just a meaningless ritual if it doesn’t engage people. Part... [Read more]