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Israeli Music

In many ways, the history of Israeli music reflects the broad struggles of this young country.

God in Jewish Prayer

The Talmudic rabbis crafted a formula that moves from addressing God to speaking about God. What did they mean to convey through this dual formula?

Jewish Husbands, Jewish Wives, and Jewish Partners

Husbands, wives, and relationships in Judaism are governed by the principle that "It is not good for the human to be alone."

Responsibility in the Face of the Other

Responsibility that begins in seeing the face of another human being is a primary philosophical category.

Taxing Times

The economic history of the Jews in Palestine in late antiquity

Rufina and Her Sisters

Jewish women in the Diaspora.

The Shiur Komah: Imaging the Divine

A text's physical description of God might actually have been intended to emphasize God's indescribability.

Spinoza and the Philosophical Impossibility of a Chosen People

Jewish chosenness is not a metaphysical reality. It derives from the conditions of a particularly prosperous period in Israelite history.

2500 BCE to 539 BCE: The Story

Jewish History from the beginning through the Babylonian exile.

Let’s Talk About Sects

The Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes on law.

Jewish Sects

In the Second Temple period.

Israel and Judaism

The importance of Israel for Jews who do not live there.