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David Mamet’s Jewish Sensibility
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Michael Weingrad
Michael Weingrad is professor of Jewish studies at Portland State University and a frequent contributor to Mosaic and the Jewish Review of Books.
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Two Orthodoxies, and the Cultures They Create
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Best Books of 2020, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part III)
By Gary Saul Morson, Yehoshua Pfeffer, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Oberon’s Jewish Pedigree
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Best Books of 2019, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part II)
By Martin Kramer, Sarah Rindner, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Ruth R. Wisse, David WolpeCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Sorry Significance of Susan Sontag
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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A Science Fiction Novel In which the Jews Become Overlords of the Post-Human Future
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Middle Eastern Jews Who Were Some of Israel’s Earliest Undercover Spies
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Why Are There No Good Graphic Novels about Jews and Israel?
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Best Books of 2018, Chosen by Mosaic Authors
By Elliott Abrams, Haviv Rettig Gur, Moshe Koppel, Daniel Polisar, Sarah Rindner, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Ruth R. Wisse, David WolpeCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The First-Ever Anthology of Israeli Science Fiction and Fantasy
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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How American Jews Came to Believe That Tikkun Olam Was at the Core of Their Tradition
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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My Funny Levantines
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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In the Poems of Rahel, We Recognize Ourselves
By Michael WeingradIf the poet Raḥel steps forth so vividly and splendidly in Hillel Halkin’s latest Mosaic essay , that is in part because he has, in eight preceding landmark essays on major figures in the modern He...
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Best Books of the Year, as Selected by Mosaic Authors
By Elliott Abrams, Peter Berkowitz, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Ruth R. Wisse, David WolpeCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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From King David to Larry David: A New Look at Jewish Humor
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Famous Amos
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Why Are Jewish Children’s Books so Bad?
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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A Rich 1925 Novel about the Recurring Dilemmas of Jewish Existence
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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What Does an Acclaimed Israeli Sci-Fi Writer Have to Tell Us about the Israel of Tomorrow?
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Why Are There No Great Israeli Superheroes?
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Philadelphia Story
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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An Unknown Yiddish Masterpiece That Anticipated the Holocaust
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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An Israeli Writer’s Great American Novel
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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The Russians Have Pushkin, the Jews Have Bialik
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Patrick Modiano’s (Jewish?) Sorrow
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist
By Michael WeingradCommitted to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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Culture and the Classroom
By Michael WeingradReading James Loeffler’s masterful diagnosis of the failure of cultural Judaism, I was reminded of my first meeting, nine years ago, with the newly arrived director of an Orthodox educational cente...
