Religious life and customs

A Template for Hate

By Rohini Mohan,

Mohammed Akhlaq went to bed early on the night he was murdered. His wife, Ikraman, stayed downstairs to clean up the kitchen and help her mother-in-law onto the cot in…

Automatic for the People

By Mikhail Kalashnikov,

From an April 7, 2012, letter by Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, to Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Kalashnikov died in December 2013; the letter…

Reb surfing

By Yosef Viener,

I walked with a zombie

By Hamilton Morris,

H’s family

Art by Xiaodong Liu,

Z’s family

Art by Xiaodong Liu,

The only son

Art by Xiaodong Liu,

The grandpa

Art by Xiaodong Liu,

Just like heaven

By Paul Ford,

Mammon from heaven

By Benjamin Anastas,

Shalom on the Range

By Theodore Ross,

Believe me, there are Jews everywhere.—Bernard Malamud, “Angel Levine” i. I was nine years old when my mother forced me to convert from Judaism to Christianity. We had just moved…

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A Template for Hate

Automatic for the People

Reb surfing

I walked with a zombie

H’s family

Z’s family

The only son

The grandpa

Just like heaven

Mammon from heaven

Shalom on the Range

December 2009