A Jewish-interest books and ideas publication offering long-form reviews and essays on history, politics, culture and Israel. Readers get critical engagement with new books and current debates, including anti-Zionism and Israeli politics.
Website: https://jewishreviewofbooks.substack.com
A personal blog of essays by a trans writer reflecting on identity, community, memory, and life in Philadelphia, including the contra dance scene and growing up in a cult. It also offers cultural analysis of whiteness, assimilation, and folk traditions from a Jewish and leftist perspective.
A weekly congregational newsletter that invites members to a Friday evening Zoom Shabbat gathering and shares a short personal reflection on Jewish text, custom or culture. Recent issues cover a Yiddish detective book, the meaning of tzitzit, and a Torah portion study.
Alex Simmons writes personal essays and commentary from a New York perspective, covering TV, comedy craft and Jewish representation in comics and film. The issues mix memoir about his father and comedy-scene experience with opinionated arguments about cultural representation.
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