The Promise of the Promised Land

In the Bible, possession of the Land of Israel is tied to moral behavior.

Do We Really Need the JOFA Conference?

They overflow the curbs of Eastern Parkway. With their black hats, beards, and suits, they are an inverse image of ...

Wise Fridays: Love Without Criticism

“Love unaccompanied by criticism is not love…Peace unaccompanied by rebuke is not peace.” —Genesis Rabbah 54:3 Find more Wise Fridays ...

Wise Fridays: Grabbing at the World

A baby enters the world with hands clenched, as if to say, “The world is mine; I shall grab it.” ...

We Don’t Really Talk About Purim

Before we crash headlong into the various celebratory, lighthearted posts about Purim, I want to draw your attention to something: ...

Bava Kamma 57

How to return a lost object.

Every Aspect of Myself

A Keshet Shabbaton participant on identity, coming out, and finding places to belong

Wise Fridays: Even Gnats and Flies

“The Rabbis said: Even though you may think them superfluous in this world, creatures such as flies, bugs, and gnats ...

Urbanization and Land Use: A Biblical Model

The design of the Levites’ urban settlements featured open spaces and regional integration.

A Wandering People

Today's global migrants, like our peripatetic forebears, are suspended in the precarious place between a difficult past and a hopeful future.