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What Is Midrash?

These writings, which fill in gaps in biblical texts, falls into two categories: halacha and aggadah.

Levirate Marriage and Halitzah

Ancient customs involving a childless widow.

What Is the Talmud?

An intergenerational rabbinic conversation that is studied, not read.

Nehama Leibowitz: Teacher

An educator who changed the face of Bible study.

Barekhu

The formal call to worship in morning and evening services.

Language, Identity, and the Scandal of American Jewry

American Jews have forgotten their letters and words.

Jewish Secularism

Is Jewish secularism possible?

The World & Judaism

Imaginary dangers and genuine opportunities.

Orthodoxy’s Power

What is it about Orthodoxy that has kept it alive in a marketplace of beliefs?

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