The End of Eros
In the Roman empire, slaves and prostitutes “played something like the part that masturbation has played in most cultures,” writes …
March 2014
Down the Israeli Rabbit Hole With Shimon Adaf
the matter of science fiction is the geography of reason; of horror, the geography of anxiety; of fantasy, the geography …
Taking Ourselves Seriously
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor, the latest volume in the Library of Ideas series launched by Princeton University Press and …
Sex and Game of Thrones
Like most of America, I’m currently making my way through George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series. …
Tap Dancing Through Black Holes
I won’t do it anymore. I won’t call Robert Whitehill-Bashan “the Hebrew poet from Texas.” Yes, he did grow up …
A Response to David Myers
Last month, David Myers, professor of Jewish history at UCLA, published an interesting essay in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal …
