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LATEST ARTICLES: TEXTS
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Bathsheba
King David's wife and King Solomon's mother game on the scene because of David's wandering gaze.
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Abigail
How one woman's manners took her from wife of a rancher to wife of King David.
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Dinah
Was her intercourse with Shechem rape?
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Sotah
This ancient ritual represents supreme inequality.
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In Yiddish
How the Yiddish translation of the Torah, Megillot and Haftarot became associated with women.
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Best Of The Week
Shabbat is starting earlier and earlier.
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Wise Fridays: The Perils of High Office
Rabbi Judah ben Tabai said: If anyone had said to me before I entered high office, "Assume that office," my only wish would have been to hound him to death.
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Esther: The Whole (Operatic) Megillah
This season, New York City Opera brought back on stage the late Hugo Weisgall's Esther, a contemporary work based on the biblical story of mortal danger and miraculous survival.
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More Notes on Being a Good Host
Two weeks ago in Parashat Vayera we read about how Abraham and Sarah were really stellar hosts, and on MJL we even featured our article on how to be a good host and a good guest.
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Best of the Week
The Yankees win! The Yankees win! Oh, I'm sorry.
