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Yoko Tawada’s Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel , translated by Susan Bernofsky, set in post-lockdown Berlin, is an absurd, dark, dreamlike narrative that meditates on warfare, religion, memory, migration, and belonging through the strange consciousness of a literary researcher, Patrik. A Celan scholar who self-identifies as “the patient,” Pat... See more

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Furthermore, each person has a unique voice and perspective, a characteristic signature that is essential for the world.

Nehemia Polen • Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens

One of your jobs as a tribal leader who wants to serve and enrich others is to find and reward leadership that’s truly committed to community success.

Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging

my vow to support, strengthen, and awaken those devoted to the human spirit who are seeking how best to serve. May we be together in this exploration and recognition of who we are.

Jewish religious life has brought forth people who do not fear arraigning even God when there is injustice.

Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays

A Year to Live,

Noah Levine • Dharma Punx

Varian Fry was a hero, but he was also a maverick who flew in the face of American policy.

Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

To Pollak, this was a demonstration not of Bill Baker’s cruelty but of his acumen—in this case to push his deep belief that science rests on a foundation of inquiry rather than certainty. Also, it revealed how nimble Baker’s mind really was. “A very small number of times in my life I’ve been in the presence of somebody who didn’t necessarily answer

Jon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

How do we bear witness? How do we bid farewell?