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The Dangers of Nice

When I set out to write the story of the Aleppo Codex, I imagined that I would be writing an uplifting ...

Hanging in the Air

Numbers 30.2. And Moses spoke to the chiefs of the tribes concerning the people of Israel, saying, This is the ...

Women’s Voices: The Path to Religious Freedom

Is it kosher to listen to Neshama Carlebach in concert? Go to an opera where women are singing solos? Enjoy ...

The Maid of Ludomir

A Queer Ancestor in the Butch-Trans Border WarAs the month of Tammuz draws to a close, we have the opportunity ...

My First “Freedom Ride”

A couple of years ago I learned about a new front in the internal Israeli struggle over religious freedom: gender ...

Five Comix about Israel Worth Reading

As a public speaker and comic book educator, people often ask me to recommend comic books or graphic novels of ...

Graphic Memoir: The Legacy of Harvey Pekar

JT Waldman co-authored and illustrated the new graphic novel Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me with writer and frequent ...

My Pekar Years

I met Harvey Pekar in 2005. On a whim, I gave him a copy of my book, and he really liked ...

Albert Einstein: A Highly Committed Jew

Albert Einstein may have been the most famous Jew of the 20th century. His biographer Walter Isaacson described that “when he ...

Arthur Mourant: It’s All In the Blood

If being Jewish were in the blood, then what better way to find the markers of Jewishness then by studying blood ...

Sarah’s Key, Mary’s Secrets, and Truth That’s Stranger Than Fiction

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. But it can be hard to tell.I did an enormous amount of research for ...

Reform Women Rabbis Being Heard

In the midst of much activity in Israel in the ongoing push to ensure that women are not silenced or ...

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