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Transforming Paradise

Is heaven a garden? Is it the abode of the dead? What language is spoken there? Early Judaism and Christianity offered up some surprising theories.The Man Who Reformed Reform

Eric Yoffie's legacy is one of engagement—not only with other religious and political groups, but with Reform Judaism's own commitments to ethics, Torah study, and synagogue worship.What is Jewish Literature?

Don't yawn yet—the question is still relevant, and the "old" answers given to it are worthy of elucidation and reconsideration.Whose Light in What Darkness?

Interpreted variously by Zionists, Jewish American liberals, and Lubavitcher Hasidim, Hanukkah is a major battleground for the heart and soul of Judaism.Getting Iran Wrong

Why have intellectuals from Foucault to Žižek found it so very difficult to see dictatorships for what they are, or to summon up the moral clarity to oppose them?Israel’s Pulp Fiction

Countercultural publishing thrived in Israel's first decades, with Westerns, espionage thrillers, science fiction, and what might be seen as the country's first literary responses to the Holocaust.The Niche Yeshiva

A secular yeshiva, an academic yeshiva, an environmental yeshiva? Israel is seeing the creation of several pilot programs geared toward ever-slimmer niche communities.After the Fall

In the eyes of two Egyptian thinkers, the Tahrir revolution was never democratic or liberal—and it was never in the interests of the middle class.The Army’s Private Sector

As trust in the civilian side of the Israeli government declines, the IDF increasingly contracts out non-military services like food and medical care—at its own peril.Falkenhayn’s Feat

The Jews of Palestine owed their survival during World War I to a German army general, who prevented the Turks from doing to the Jews what they had already done to the Armenians.