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Stephen Marche’s wonderful novel Raymond and Hannah (2006) begins with WASPy Raymond meeting sultry Jewish Hannah at a party. The two go home together for what’s supposed to be a one-night stand, but quickly and intensely evolves into a passionate weeklong tryst. At the week’s end, Hannah leaves–as scheduled–to explore her religious identity at a Jerusalem yeshiva. Raymond […]

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Yehoshua November is a young Hasidic poet who teaches at Rutgers University. In his classes, he’s been known to reference the non-linear storytelling of the Torah to encourage students to tell stories the way they remember them. This religious orientation has not stopped major media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, from reviewing his new book, God’s Optimism. Most recently, Garrison Keillor, […]

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In 1509, Johannes Pfefferkorn–a former rabbi who became a Dominican monk–published a book called Judenspiegel, or Mirror of the Jews. It was a ghastly, vividly anti-Semitic book, full of false disclosures about the Jewish people–and it proposed that all Hebrew books, including the Talmud, be burned. At about the same time, a Bavarian priest named Johannes Reuchlin became enamored with the Hebrew language, and […]

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