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Essay Gershom Scholem’s Youthful Zionism George Prochnik is the author of The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, a 2014 National Jewish Book Award winner. With the release of his new… George Prochnik March 20, 2017
Nonfiction Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem George Prochnik
Nonfiction Spiritual Cross-Training: Searching through Silence, Stretch, and Song Benjamin Shalva
Essay My Very Unorthodox Kabbalist Recently named Opinion Editor at the Forward, Sigal Samuel is the author of The Mystics of Mile End, a novel bending standard concepts of community, gender, and… Sigal Samuel December 21, 2015
Nonfiction Kabbalah: A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences Shahar Arzy and Moshe Idel