The Ambiguities of Being Muslim and Modern
Rushain Abbasi So much and yet so little is conveyed by the word “modernity.” On the one hand, it possesses the sovereign-like capacity
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Marginal Notes
The Jewish Evangelion: A Resistance Polemic on the Margins
Shlomo Zuckier on reading from the margins Central to Christian theology is the concept of the “evangelion” (εὐαγγέλιον), literally the good news, used
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Toward A Better Eternity: COVID-19 and The Recovery of Time
Ahmed Elbenni on COVID-19 Lately, I’ve taken to counting in Fridays. It’s been ten Fridays since the coronavirus made my body home and
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A Muslim Reflection on COVID-19
Asad Dandia on Faith and COVID-19 In response to COVID-19, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order announcing that all businesses
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Digital Piety: The Eucharist in COVID-19
Editor’s Note: In times of crisis, many people turn to religion. In our time of trial, religion itself must shut its physical doors
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Star Wars East of Eden: The Rise of Skywalker
Brad Holden on The Rise of Skywalker Early in The Rise of Skywalker Kylo Ren’s helmet is reforged. In the previous movie, The
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Combating Antisemitism: The Role of Myth
Gilah Kletenik on Antisemitism All of my grandparents came to this country as refugees from antisemitism. My paternal grandmother survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and my
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My Last Day As An Adjunct
Ed Simon on Adjuncting The day was bittersweet. It was my last time that I might teach a college course. A few months
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But Is Torah True?
Rabbi Katz on Orthodoxy after Scholarship Maimonides claims that “we have to believe that the whole Torah was given to us by Moses,
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St. Augustine’s Jews and the Undeserving Poor
Azzan Yadin-Israel on the vilification of the poor That the Republican Party has championed laws hostile to the poor is more a factual
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