Bava Kamma 57

How to return a lost object.

Urbanization and Land Use: A Biblical Model

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

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 ...

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.

Remembering Jenna

I don’t remember the date in September—even though, beginning on Labor Day, my son reminds me several times—but I have ...

Israeli Film

The relationship between Israeli cinema and its establishment has often been an uneasy one. Nonetheless, the history of Israeli cinema mirrors the history of Israel itself.

Isaac and Rebecca’s Dysfunctional Family

In their relationships with each other, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, and Esau, struggle between models of unity and connection and separation and deceit.

External Texts

A bibliographical summary of Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.

When I Lost Control, I Started to Lose Weight

There are lots of versions of this story, and while it would be just perfect if it were true, its ...

Why I Support Trans Students

Keshet Board Vice Chair Carson Gleberman reflects on her experience at an LGBTQ & Ally Teen Shabbaton.