Boston

Lessons in Counterterrorism Greg Myre, NPR. "Israelis have figured out how to live with this contradiction: Something terrible could happen at any moment and there's no reason to let fear dictate how you live."

The Fall of the House of Wittgenstein Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe. A Beethoven sculpture, a "gift of Paul Wittgenstein," has just arrived at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.  It reminds us of a brilliant family of Secession-era Vienna—and its fall.

Sacred Spa(ce) Allison Hoffman, Tablet. Imagine a place where Jews can go in times of illness, mourning, divorce, gender reassignment; to think about intimacy, body image, fertility . . . . Meet the new mikveh.