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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
The Yankees win! The Yankees win! Oh, I'm sorry.
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David Ostow: Punk Rock Visits the Holy Temple
David Ostow, the comic artist behind So Punk Rock (And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother), and his sister, Micol Ostow, are guest-blogging all week with MyJewishLearning and Jewish Book Council. ...
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This Can't Be A Coincidence
Some editor over at FunnyorDie.com must have gone to Jewish day school.
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The Tower of Babel and Crisis of Translation
In her last posts, Ellen Frankel looked at how to make the Bible PG and asked “What is Jewish Literature?” In this week’s parshah, Noah, we read about the Tower of Babel, constructed at a t...
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Noah Was a Survivor
Of all the gigs I've ever had, this had to be the most extreme.
