Religion & Holidays
What rhymes with Ahasuerus?
My encounters with the life and legacy of Velvl Greene.
Religious students get little sympathy from administrators, and much bewilderment from peers.
Stopping the march of the Jewish cliché.
For today’s Jews, decisions are made not by organizations but by the community.
Jewish belief is “coherent” only to those who experience it viscerally.
The new political supersessionism.
Is Jewish Law an Expression of Heavenly Ideals or a Pragmatic Measure for Bringing Order to Society?
A 14th-century rabbinic debate on the purpose of the legal system.
And what can be learned from it.
The Cecil B. DeMille version of the revelation at Sinai, in which Moses ascends the mountain on his own and returns bearing tablets, misses key aspects of the Israelites’ experience.
Celebrating the fruits of the holy land.
How not to have a conversation between faiths.
What better explains the sudden rise of republican government in the 16th and 17th centuries than the new and widespread availability of the Bible? And that’s not all.
