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Philip Roth Answers Your Letters, BootyCall Israel

Jewish Continuity: It begins with wanting to be with other Jews.

In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Backward editors Dan Friedman and Tony Weiss to discuss the latest issue of the Backward, which features Philip Roth answering questions in the Bintel Brief, a new Birthright trip called “BootyCall Israel.” Plus, is Hollywood giving up blockbuster Holocaust movies for slavery movies?

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