New Wave, Old Country: In the new issue of @JRBooks, I look at one of the best films ever made about Israel and at its director -- the elusive French master Chris Marker -- and consider what has changed since 1960.
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Who was the Jewish Sherlock Holmes? Can a Jewish comic book turn into high art? Is Cynthia Ozick’s NEW short story one of her best?? All your questions are answered in the pages of the latest JRB! https://t.co/B8jTBpQLIA
#Archives The tradition to stay up all night studying on Shavuot is far more well-known than the tradition to do so on Hoshana Rabbah. Neither would have been possible without Kabbalah and caffeine. https://t.co/7oPrXpWfZK
#Archives And should we add a confession on Yom Kippur “for the sin of opening browser windows of distraction”? On Aristotle’s akrasia and Maimonides’s teshuvah. https://t.co/6nCz7ttpcx
In the talmudic era, many Jewish legal documents were standardized. Even magic bowls inscribed with methods to divorce a demon. https://t.co/OYFGW8gvtB