Daniel Septimus

Philip Roth has won another award, the first PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, named for his good ...

Over at Contentions, Hillel Halkin has posted a thought about one of the Passover Haggadah’s most difficult texts: shfokh hamatkha, ...

According to a new poll, 85% of Israelis believe in God, while 12% are atheists. The interesting part of the ...

Last month, I went to the bris of a colleague’s newborn son, and I was reminded how difficult these lifecycle ...

A very interesting letter to the editor in this week’s Jewish Week raises a fascinating question: With gay and lesbian ...

As promised, here’s a link to my Jerusalem Post write-up of this year’s South By Southwest music festival, with a ...

This month’s issue of Commentary includes a lengthy essay by Meir Soloveichik, in which he rejects theological interfaith dialogue. Soloveichik ...

The fourth issue of Guilt & Pleasure is now out, and at first glance, it seems as good (and good-looking) ...

Big news from the West Coast. The University of Judaism and the Brandeis-Bardin Institute are merging and forming a new ...

David Klinghoffer’s latest assault on liberalism — published on Jewcy.com — is an attempt to frame liberalism in terms of ...