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Varieties of Religious Experience

Major American politicians seem unusually promiscuous in their religious affinities, not just switching houses of worship but totally altering the substance of their faith.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.The Perils of Pauline Kael

"Remember how it was in the '60s and '70s, when movies were hot and we were hot?"  Perhaps.  One fellow film critic remembers that period—and the players in Kael's orbit—quite differently.      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. 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.