The War Fronts of Helena Salem
Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe 2025 for playing Eunice Paiva in the film...
Essays
Hatching the Cobra
Let no one praise Perillus, who was cruder than the tyrant Phalaris, for whom he constructed...
Rethinking Holocaust Memory
“Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being...
March 1968: Pierpaolo Pasolini to the Students
We are posting Pierpaolo Pasolini’s 1968 letter to the students in revolt to invite reflection on...
Extravagant reflections around Pesach
This essay is part of a widespread reflection on the places and forms of historical Judaism....
Del doman non v’è certezza
From the joint program on Giorno della Memoria In the past weeks I have received hundreds...
Truth or Dare?
Reinterpreting Al-Harīrī’s Arab Rogue. The Markaz Review, 2021 A new English translation of Impostures from Basra-born...
Immanuel’s Riddle
“But when I raise my voice at Kedushah or Yozer, the fountains of song open wide....
The Heretical Origins of the Sonnet
This essay was published in: Daily JStor, April 21, 2021 Of variable rhyme scheme and meter,...
The Last Muslims in Italy
During Dante’s lifetime, the only Muslim city on the Italian peninsula ceased to exist. Dante does...