Jewish History
The Rabbis and the Common Folk
The evolving relationship between the rabbinic sages and the Jews on the street.
Discussing the Holocaust with Children
A topic that may seem far from modern children's lives holds valuable social lessons.
Shabbat Hazon & Shabbat Nahamu
The Sabbaths before and after Tisha B'Av provide a message of comfort and consolation.
How The Bible Differs from Other Religious Texts of Its Time
Go with Gilgamesh, but lose the animal livers.
Surrendering to the Romans
The remarkable parallels in the stories of Josephus' and Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai's surrenders to the Romans reveal more about Jewish memory than Jewish history.
Philo Judaeus: Philosophical Pilgrim
Philo worked to reconcile Hellenism and the Hebrew Scriptures.
The Synagogue and the Study House
These two institutions reflect the dynamism and the tensions in late antique Jewish society.
