Guy Gavriel Kay created Devin Bar Garin, but couldn’t mention Ben-Gurion.

Peter S. Beagle at eighty.

The anxiety of criticism.

Of demons and deracination.

Swords, dragons, and burning talmuds.

Gentile artists who portrayed different aspects of the Jewish people.

Short, bearded beings exiled from their homeland who have forever dreamed of returning.

The Israeli novelist S. Y. Agnon and J.R R. Tolkien, the English author of Lord of the Rings, do not appear to have much in. . .

The Obama administration’s eschewal of military intervention in favor of diplomacy has benefited Iran and Bashar al-Assad at the expense of Israel and the Syrian rebels.

A new collection of Kafka short stories retold for children is scarier than any fairy tale—but only for parents.