A Christian reading of Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Halakhic Man highlights how much Jews and Christians share, and how grave are their differences.

At work in the richly varied oeuvre of the late public intellectual is a penetrating theological-political insight into the nature of human experience.

A literary and political masterpiece, the book of Deuteronomy deserves to be appreciated both for its final theological teaching and in light of the transformative. . .

Striving for a new theology to account for restored Jewish sovereignty, a Catholic priest ended by condemning Israel as fervently as he had admired it.

Why do so many ancient synagogue mosaics in Israel feature pagan symbols? (2012)

On Hanukkah, the lights and distractions of the material world fade before the true source of enlightenment.

A new wave of Israeli science fiction and fantasy not only reflects global currents and popular culture but also grapples with issues of Jewish belief and identity.

In the wake of national or personal tragedy, is there a way for Jews to protest divine injustice by “tacking” in prayer?

Rather than eschewing the physical, the Chabad movement aims to reveal the material world as another form of divine expression.

Are the seven hoshanot—ritual circuits of the synagogue—practiced today, on Hoshana Rabbah, an echo of the biblical conquest of Jericho?

With the recitation of the prayer for rain on Sh’mini Atzeret, the High Holiday season closes in a reminder of human frailty and divine beneficence. 

“Jews are the world’s experts in insecurity, having lived with it for millennia. And the supreme response to insecurity is Sukkot.”

The words entreating forgiveness in the Yom Kippur liturgy suggest that the slate cannot be wiped entirely clean. 

The concept of a divine ledger in which God inscribes the fate of each Jew during the High Holy Days stretches back to the shared. . .