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The Cursed House

The image of a house afflicted with a plague encourages us to examine what real and metaphorical plagues afflict our own homes and societies.

Wisdom From The Margins

Jethro's position at the outside of the Jewish people allowed him to understand how to make the Torah work for a multiplicity of people.

What Is Mussar?

A history and overview of this virtues-based approach to Jewish ethics and character development.

Emmanuel Levinas

A 20th-century philosopher whose Jewish sensibility influenced his encounter with Western thought and ethics.

English Words of Hebrew Origin

From cabal to camel, a list of English words that derive from Hebrew.

Ashkenazi Jews Embrace Sephardic Fare

Now that the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet are being realized, American Jewry is embracing Sephardic cooking.

Mordecai Ardon

Symbols without significance.

Blacks and Jews Entangled

The complicated history of Black-Jewish relations in America.

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