Eli Valley sends Stuart the Jewish Turtle to Johannesburg to stop Judge Goldstone from attending his grandson’s bar mitzvah.
Paul Berger yuks it up with Russian Jewish comedians in New York.
Jerome E. Copulsky reviews “The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness” by Oren Harman.
Judah S. Harris visits the Jewish Culture Festival in Charleston, S.C.
Benjamin Ivry reflects on literary critic Harold Bloom as he enters his ninth decade.
Jay Michaelson wonders whether the values of peoplehood and Israel aren’t on a natural collision course.
And Philologos communes with God/G-d/god, gosh darn it.