Israel & the Arts

A talk with Hanoch Rosenne, Israel’s most famous pantomime artist (Ha’aretz)A look at the considerable success of the The Mayumana ...

Rights and Submission

 Each year when I read the Joseph narratives in Genesis I discover something new. It is one of the joys for ...

The Jews of Russia

The territories of the former Russian Empire were the cradle of Jewish modernity, the birthplace of Zionism and Jewish socialism, and a major center of the Hasidic movement.

Shabbat 68

Forgetting what you never knew.

The Orange and the Brides

The brides were sequestered in a tiny room at the banquet hall less than an hour before their wedding, fixing ...

Ketubot 45

Consistently inconsistent.

Moed Katan 8

Sense and sensibility.

Landsmanshaftn

Immigrants from the same towns came together for fun and charity.

Key Issues in Modern Jewish History

How emancipation, nationalism, capitalism and liberalism affected the Jews.