A rabbinic lesson in civic comity.
But others disagree.
A tale of three scepters.
The author of “Shibboleths and Sun Salutations: Should Religious Jews Practice Yoga?” joins us to defend his ideas.
The “smiting gods” of its holy of holies.
From Barry Goldwater’s second cousin to the Park Slope Jewish center.
His ancestry was questionable, but he may have kept kosher.
Mistaking the sign for the thing itself.
Being someone before God.
A theory based on a mistranslation.
Hills? Mounds? Platforms?
Judaism and the “last of the magicians.”
Fighting idolatry in the 8th century BCE.