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Evangelicals and Israel
Obviously, a lot has been written about evangelical support for Israel. Yet from all the reading and talking I’ve done ...
The Ecstasy of Influence
Some people consider Jonathan Lethem a Jewish writer because he’s Jewish (or half-Jewish, at least), but I’m not not going ...
This Week in Zionism
For me, this week has yielded some very productive thinking about Israel and Zionism. In addition to the blogging and ...
Can You Tell Me How To Get…
…to Ben Yehuda Street?Recently a new Israeli children’s network called HOP! started making new episodes of an Israeli children’s classic, ...
Six Points Fellows Announced
The Six Points Fellowship, which will offer 12 New York-based artists a $25,000 stipend, up to $20,000 in project support, ...
The Boy Who Fell
As the aspiring fiction writers among us know, novels (and certainly short stories) do not sell as well as non-fiction. ...
New Blog
Menachem Wecker has launched a new blog — Iconia — which will focus on the intersection of art and religion. ...
Castle in the Forest
Norman Mailer’s first novel in a decade, The Castle in the Forest, was released today. The book, which is narrated ...
Big Money Books
Five finalists have been announced for the new Sami Rohr prize for Jewish literature. According to the official announcement (a ...
Safran Foer in Arabia
I love Wikipedia as much as the next guy (who’s constantly debating facts with his friends), but as the editor ...