Study

The remarkable parallels in the stories of Josephus' and Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai's surrenders to the Romans reveal more about Jewish memory than Jewish history.

Philo worked to reconcile Hellenism and the Hebrew Scriptures.

How amoraic study sessions became the Gemaras.

The emergence of amoraic schools of study.

These two institutions reflect the dynamism and the tensions in late antique Jewish society.

Revelations from God

According to some interpreters, the Jews chose to be chosen.

Modern thinkers have addressed the free will problem by questioning the authority of science, acknowledging the limits of freedom, and asserting the transcendent importance of choice.

For Jews, memory is not just individual, but also communal.

Holocaust history, memory and art.

Both faith communities have something to teach the other.

Many calamitous events are said to have occurred on Tisha B'Av.