December 2004
Hila Ratzabi, The Other Jews: Secularism, Kabbalah, and Radical Poetics
Dan Friedman, Straight Eye for the Consumer Guy
Abigail Pickus, I'll Say Goodbye and Let You Go
Rachel Barenblat, Sufganiyot
Jay Michaelson, Three Jewish Books on Sadness
David Zellnik, A Jewish Masterpiece
Cover art: Magic Square by Allyson Grey
Additional art by Smadar Eliaf and Deva Suckerman



November 2004
James Russell, This Land was Your Land (review of Philip Roth)
Lauren Wilson, The Dream of Autobiography (review of Tarnation)
Jay Michaelson, Am I Religious?
Joshua Axelrad, Down and Out in the Slipper Room (review of Val Geffner)
Samantha Stiers, Money Back Guarantee
Nigel Savage, Sitting on an Aeroplane while Grandma Dies
Cover art: Alef 25 by Shirah Rachel Apple
Additional art by Akiva Kenny Sagan



October 2004
Leah Koenig, Empowering Jewish Progressives
Jay Michaelson, Deconstructing Zell Miller
Dan Friedman, Where Left and Right Collide
Hila Ratzabi, A Demonstration in Words
Cullen Goldblatt, belly of the beast
Cover art by David Katz
Additional art by David Teplica, Ed Patschke, and others



September 2004
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Two Prayers for the Days of Awe
Jay Michaelson, How can you be gay and Jewish?
Joshua Feigelson, Singing God's Praises: Psalms and Authenticity
Hal Sirowitz, Hiding Your Sins
Bara Sapir, Retrato de Familia
Jews and Bush: A Resource Guide
Cover art by Lauren Curtis
Additional art by Igal and Mario Permuth



August 2004
Jay Michaelson, The Spiritual Foundations of Bushism
Josh Axelrad, Sex and the Golem
Esther Nussbaum, How Jewish is Modigliani?
Dan Friedman, Steel and Glass
Shaun Hanson, Falafel Ghosts
Chanel Dubofsky, No Matter What, I Wish You Luck
Art by John Hall



July 2004
Jay Michaelson, Hasidism and Homoeroticism
Rabbi Jill Hammer, An Altar of Earth: Jews, Goddesses, and the Zohar
Andy Alpern and Shir Yaakov Feinstein-Feit, Lag B'Omer: Sound and Image
Ari Belenkiy, Couple
Paul Fischer, One Ring Zero: As Smart as They Are
Josh Ring's Jury Duty
Art by Pamela Yates



June 2004
Jeff Leavell, Becoming Jewish-ish
Jay Michaelson, How I Finally Learned to Accept Christ in My Heart
Hila Ratzabi, Three Poems
Rowena Silver, Hyatt Regency Dead Sea Resort
Dan Friedman, Mean to Girls
Josh Ring breaks his Finger
Art by Paul Mindell



May 2004
Michael Shurkin, The Hamas Class of 1992
Jill Hammer, Every City Has a Soul
Abi Cohen, T. Cooper: No Fences
Jay Michaelson, Wrestling with Steve Greenberg
Margaret Strother Shalev, Wagner in Israel
Ira Stone, The Stable
Photography by Jay Michaelson



April 2004
Dan Friedman, Persistence of Memory
Avi Levy, Then
Michael Shurkin, The Virtue of Mediocrity
Debra Bruno, Dead Sea
Jay Michaelson, Life During Wartime
David Goldstein, Faith



March 2004
Jay Michaelson, Passion and Violence (review of "The Passion of the Christ")
Sarah Lefton, A Song of Ascents: The News from San Francisco
Samuel Hayim Brody, Bush the Exception (review of "The Price of Loyalty")
Hal Sirowitz, God Had a Controlling Interest
Josh Ring hosts a Party
Margaret Mackenzie Schwartz, The Wrong Half
Art by Bara Sapir



February 2004
Jonathan Boyarin, Abraham Joshua Heschel: God Likes New Things
Jay Michaelson, You are God in Drag
Michael Shurkin, Davening with Joe
Shari Goldman Gottlieb, Storyteller
Abraham Mezrich, Pomegranates: A Parable
Josh Ring almost gets cancer
Art by Shulamit Wildawsky



January 2004
James Russell, Harvard Death Fugue: The Exploitation of Bruno Schulz
Sara Liss, The Jews of Istanbul
Jay Michaelson, Thinking Despite Doubt, Feeling Despite Truth
Joel Stanley, The Truth about the Rosenbergs
Joshua Bolton, Two Rituals
Josh Ring goes to the Hospital



2003