Singing Meadow: The Adventure of Creating a Country Home by Peri Phillips McQuay

Review of Peri Phillips McQuay\u27s Singing Meadow: The Adventure of Creating a Country Home

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt

Review of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt\u27s Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment edited by Louise Westling

Randy Lee Cutler reviews The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment, edited by Louise Westlin

Robert Cover’s Call to Teaching and Journey to Judaism

As a teacher, Yale law professor Robert Cover never “dazzled,” “zinged,” nor “entertained”; he just engaged his students on a journey to the real and true that ultimately invited them to become the best version of themselves. As a Jew, Professor Cover wore an oversized skull cap, covered himself in a multicolored prayer shawl, and studied from a huge Talmud. He also, however, made everyone around him feel valued and welcomed and swept them up in a faith Professor Cover saw as wondrous and life-changing. This essay considers what the life of Robert Cover can teach us about what it means to be a teacher, a Jew, and an instrument of love

Reflections on the Creation of the Jewish Law Institute at Touro

Having interpreted the topic of our panel liberally, what I want to talk about today is why Sam Levine, director of Touro’s Jewish Law Institute, is here at the conference, or, to put it differently—why does Touro Law School have a Jewish law institute?

Reflections on Jewish and American Disability Law and on the God Who Makes All Things Good

Perhaps, the woman’s outrage was fueled somewhat by being American, by being able to compare our law with respect to people with disabilities to God’s. After all, in America, our laws do not allow discrimination against people who are disabled. We grant them access. We accommodate them. We invite them to work and have value. We call them equal and seek ways to help them emulate the lives of those of us who are not disabled. We allow them to share in our perfection. Or do we? Might one also accuse us, as the woman to Rabbi Yolkut accused God, of rejecting those whom we label in our laws “disabled”? Might one accuse us of rejecting these people as they are, and then seeking to accept them only as we might redefine them? Do we seek to remake these people in our own image when we should be helping them to find God’s perfection for them, helping them to find God’s image uniquely articulated in how He created them