Better late than never: last year, Princeton University Press published Sarah Stroumsa's Maimonides in His World. It is a strictly…
Maimonides, man of the Mediterranean
Judaism
Super Bowl and religion roundup
Without fail, the Super Bowl inspires a round of sports-and-religion stories. Dubbed a "high h0liday" of American society by Joseph Price, its cultural…
American Jews and Sarah Palin
This month's Commentary features a provocative piece (click on the link and scroll down) by Jennifer Rubin on Jewish reactions…
A haunting Chagall resurfaces in London
The New York Times reports that the London Jewish Museum of Art has recently acquired a previously unknown Marc Chagall…
A Jewish biography of Bob Dylan
Of the writing of Bob Dylan books, there is no end. Now, after all these years, somebody has written a…
Was prophecy a day job for poets?
In The New Republic, Adam Kirsch reviews David Rosenberg's A Literary Bible, which makes an arresting claim about Hebrew biblical…
Does Joe Lieberman benefit from Jewish stereotypes?
Via Yglesias, Jonathan Chait wonders whether certain Jewish stereotypes are redounding to the benefit of the senator from Connecticut.