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Confessions of a Narcissist

Claude Lanzmann's memoir is a self-indulgent failure.  But Shoah is a work of genius, and that does indeed justify a life.    Korah: A Tribal Story

Numbers always prefers one of the two Hebrew words for tribe — except in chapter 17, where it uses that word quite differently. We'll continue the exploration that we began during Parshat B'midbar. (Click here for source sheet.)  Download | Duration: 00:10:51The Maturation of Etgar Keret

While other Israeli authors write about the country's political or social problems, Etgar Keret focuses on the futility of the human condition. Israel just brings that condition into stark relief.       Public Enemy

An admirer of Qaddafi and Mugabe and an old-school anti-Semite, Charles Barron is an unlikely choice for a New York congressman. But low turnout in the Democratic primary could make him just that.Anglo-Jewry: A Contradiction in Terms?

If Jews are, in the words of literary critic Leslie Fiedler, the natural voice of modern America, Jewish writers in Britain remain the voice of the permanent counter-culture.Who Killed Hebrew in America?

Who could have foretold an eruption of Hebrew-generative genius on the American continent—which, having no offspring, then came to nothing?The Munich Files

Files just released on the PLO massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics show that the terrorists received assistance from German neo-Nazis—who were let off virtually scot-free.“Rabbi, do we Jews believe in reincarnation?”

"Knowing full well that much of Kabbalah, philosophy, and even Midrash does accept the notion of reincarnation, I tried to muster a definitive 'No!'"  Return to Vienna

Jews who grew up in cosmopolitan pre-war Vienna came back after the war to find themselves strangers at home. Yet Austria's capital still fascinates Jewish writers.