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Essay—From the Journal Point of Contact Making songs and poems about Torah. Alicia Jo Rabins April 30, 2019
Essay—From the Journal Papa Stalin and the Happy Family On Communist Yiddish children’s books in the Soviet Union and United States. Miriam Udel April 29, 2019
Essay The Last Great Jewish Novel Was a Movie: A Look Back at the Coen Brothers’ ‘A Serious Man’ An examination of the literary influences behind the film, a decade after its release. Andrew Ridker March 19, 2019
Essay How Elie Wiesel Taught Me to Grapple with Difficult Religious Texts When a text disappoints us with an anti-human message, we will avoid the sin of premature forgiveness, of letting the text off the hook too easily. Ariel Burger February 26, 2019
Essay The Real Gittel of “Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story” Lesléa Newman February 25, 2019