2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (36+ words) Nicholas Lemann writes about the Jewish community in which he grew up in New Orleans, and how its desire to assimilate to American life sometimes left it out of step with American Jewish culture at large....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (507+ words) How would you characterize what we are seeing in the U. K. right now in terms of antisemitic incidents? And does it feel different from past times, such as right after October 7th, when there was an uptick in antisemitism? Are you trying…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (180+ words) As he soon learned, the sign had the opposite effect. "Go fuck yourself'you're trash!" one man shouted at him. "Get a life!" another person yelled. Nothing Olitzky could have said about the Gaza war would likely have pleased all the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (81+ words) Poetry by Tyehimba Jess: "It should be thistle-covered, / a labor of thunder bent / through it." It should be thistle-covered, a labor of thunder bent It should fountain sweet- water arcs into catfish- It should flock blackbirds into halos about it....

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (183+ words) This is nota good year. But it haswitnesses. When you see them protest the powerful, since who else does, they standlike flagpoles outside the courthouseafter a northeaster. They are your legionof bent spoons. They are the only oneswho showed up'with…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (110+ words) Poetry by Maya C. Popa: "I wasn't fooled by these walls of my body / but loved them touched." I wasn't fooled by these walls of my body but loved them touched, like a seed that germinates in fire; shy slide of…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (842+ words) From the daily newsletter: a conversation about drugs, God, and science. Plus: the new official language of the U. S. ; "Salome," perverted. Is God a woman? A conversation about the religious professionals who, after tripping on mushrooms, became evangelists for psychedelics. Plus:…...