Mixed Multitudes

Reuters reports: Israel is trying to put a name to the war it waged against Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas last year, ...

Thanks to FailedMessiah for pointing out a very interesting article in Biblical Archaeology Review in which Hershel Shanks interviews four ...

Susannnah Heschel has a wonderful article in the Jewish Week about her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, in which she writes ...

Jean Baudrillard, the maddeningly-obscure, but prophetic, French philosopher died earlier this week at the age of 77.Baudrillard wasn’t Jewish. But ...

The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...

In the world of Jewish learning, understanding Rashi is one of the most basic—and the most difficult—skills you’ll have to ...

As expected, the University of Judaism made the first practical move toward integrating the Conservative movement’s new responsum on homosexuality: ...

Thanks to our friends at American Jewish World Service and the Jewish Outreach Institute you can now read weekly Torah ...

March is Jewish Women’s History Month. But really, shouldn’t every month be Jewish Women’s History Month? Every day of every ...

Slate asks the question on everyone’s mind: “If male martyrs can expect to find 72 virgin maidens in paradise when ...