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The Kabbalist Anarchist

The kibbutz movement and Martin Buber were only two of many exemplars of Jewish leftism influenced by the ideas of Gustav Landauer.Cherchez l’homme

Simone de Beauvoir's affair with the American Jewish novelist Nelson Algren gave her everything she never got from Sartre. The State of the State

Beneath Israel's veneer of start-ups, hi-tech firms, and luxury hotels lies an ailing, unsupervised infrastructure that leaves it woefully unprepared for the next catastrophe.Museum as Muse

The educator and scholar Cyrus Adler (1862-1940) may have been the first to argue for placing Jewish culture on display in modern America—but his vision differed markedly from that of today's curators.Hanukkah in the Gulag

A makeshift hanukkiah and a prisoner's resourcefulness miraculously overcome a camp commander's obduracy. From the author's post-liberation memoir Fear No Evil (1986).Brain Death and Jewish Law

An Orthodox neurosurgeon argues that the classical halakhic definition of death must be revisited—but a recent position paper on brain death is inaccurate and incomplete. Re-viewing “Shoah”

A quarter-century after its first release, Claude Lanzmann's transformative nine-hour film will soon be screened again in the U.S.Vayigash: Three Heroes, Three Paths

This week, the life stories of three great biblical figures—Judah, Joseph, and Jacob—all come to a head, as each of these individuals learns to rely on his strengths to help him overcome his weaknesses.