An Act of Faith
It is our duty as young people to believe in life. Believing in life means believing in ourselves. But seeing that our character cannot fully develop if not in a…
Essays
From the Altar to Dust: Giuliano Gerbi and the Voice of Italian Sport
The beloved sports correspondent, after having chronicled the Tour de France and Bartali’s victory, is “expelled” in accordance with racial laws. Two letters shed light on Corriere della Sera’s editor Borelli’s…
The War Fronts of Helena Salem
Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe 2025 for playing Eunice Paiva in the film “I’m Still Here.” Eunice was the wife of the politician Rubens Paiva, kidnapped and…
Hatching the Cobra
Let no one praise Perillus, who was cruder than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he constructed a brazen bull, promising that when a man was enclosed therein and a fire…
Rethinking Holocaust Memory
“Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”…
March 1968: Pierpaolo Pasolini to the Students
We are posting Pierpaolo Pasolini’s 1968 letter to the students in revolt to invite reflection on the continuities and discontinuities of students’ protest, consider what has happened since and think…
Extravagant reflections around Pesach
This essay is part of a widespread reflection on the places and forms of historical Judaism. E: It’s going to be Pesach soon. What are you thinking about? Will…
Del doman non v’è certezza
From the joint program on Giorno della Memoria In the past weeks I have received hundreds of remembrance day emails and letters asking “to fight Holocaust distortion” and “antisemitism.” One…
Truth or Dare?
Reinterpreting Al-Harīrī’s Arab Rogue. The Markaz Review, 2021 A new English translation of Impostures from Basra-born Al-Harīrī (aka the Arab poet known as Abū Muhammad al-Qāsim ibn Alī ibn Muhammad…
Immanuel’s Riddle
“But when I raise my voice at Kedushah or Yozer, the fountains of song open wide. And on Kippur, or Purim, or any of the holidays, whether I chant a…