# The Jew From Nowhere

> A newsletter on all things related to Jews and Judaism

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## Posts
- [Athena for the Cinema, Genesis for the World](https://jewfromnowhere.com/p/athena-for-the-cinema-genesis-for-the-world): Homer’s world is one of dazzling gods. Genesis gives it only one. Here’s why Nolan’s Odyssey ends up closer to the latter.
- [The Book That Would Not Be Closed](https://jewfromnowhere.com/p/the-book-that-would-not-be-closed): The Talmud survives because it never mistook neatness for truth, or closure for wisdom.
- [The Jews Who Belong](https://jewfromnowhere.com/p/the-jews-who-belong): The Jewish thread does not merely adorn the Western tapestry; it runs through the warp and weft of the whole. 
- [But Where Are the Jews?](https://jewfromnowhere.com/p/but-where-are-the-jews): The Golden Thread is a sumptuous work of Western history, but it’s missing some crucial players. 
- [Reckoning With Mrs. Job](https://jewfromnowhere.com/p/reckoning-with-mrs-job): Job’s wife is neither peripheral nor irrelevant; her terrible little sentence may represent the most coherent theological position in the entire book.
- [A Land Flowing With Books and Paradoxes](https://jewfromnowhere.com/p/a-land-flowing-with-books-and-paradoxes): There’s nothing like an Israeli bookstore. 
- [Independence and Its Discontents](https://jewfromnowhere.com/p/independence-and-its-discontents): Jews have remarkedly varied reactions to the Jewish state, which come to the fore every Israeli independence day. 
- [The Shul-Book: A Field Guide](https://jewfromnowhere.com/p/the-shul-book-a-field-guide): The book one brings to long Shul services must be chosen with extreme care. Follow these instructions to avoid disaster. 
- [A Civilization of Questions](https://jewfromnowhere.com/p/a-civilization-of-questions): "Why is this night different from all other nights?"
- [Welcome to The Jew From Nowhere](https://jewfromnowhere.com/p/welcome-to-the-jew-from-nowhere): An introduction to this project and your host, J.J. Kimche.

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## Authors
- [J.J. Kimche](https://jewfromnowhere.com/authors/j-j-kimche)