Daniel Septimus

On Sunday, I’ll be heading to Park City, Utah for a conference called called “Why Be Jewish?” The 2 1/2 ...

The other day I blogged about my gut discomfort with the class-action lawsuit brought by children of Holocaust survivors, asking ...

Last week, NPR’s “Heard on the Street” featured a “debate” between Jew for Jesus Larry Dubin and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld ...

I don’t want to judge people who have been traumatized by Holocaust-survivor parents, but I’m not sure I can help ...

Today, the Very Short List featured a new graphic novel — Exit Wounds, by Rutu Modan — that takes place ...

Yesterday, for the second time in a week, Pope Benedict XVI reversed positions of the Second Vatican Council, which in ...

In an effort to get smarter and diversify my knowledge, I’ve recently decided to try and read Wikipedia’s daily featured ...

Back in April I blogged about Charles Murray’s Commentary article in which he theorizes about the sources of the supposed ...

I’m not sure I recommend any volume of short stories more than Adam Haslett’s You Are Not a Stranger Here. ...

In this week’s Jewish Week, Cynthia Ozick responds to the newspaper’s two scathing critiques (one by Gary Rosenblatt, the other ...