So many of us carry secrets — some heavy, some light. Some that mean nothing, and some that change everything. Six writers tell stories of secrets kept, shared, and revealed
I n the latest issue of the Jewish Review of Books, Allan Arkush, a Judaic studies professor at New York’s Binghamton University, surveys the American Jewish scene and comes to some depressing conclusions. Along the way, though, are some interesting insights. He begins by setting out two contrasting early 20th-century visions of how the Jewish
“This shameful bill passed controversially in the Knesset, is responsible for many premature deaths in dangerously ill people who avoided medical treatment out of fear of the draconian regulations allowing their body to be dissected after death.”