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Non-Traditional Jewish Identities

A look at the many different ways Jews define their Judaism today.

Conservative Judaism Today

Smaller but more committed, the movement is seeing vibrant, sometimes divisive debate as it navigates between tradition and change.

Alan Kaufman Interview: The Radical Subversion of Zionist Art

Alan Kaufman has gone through a lot of cocoons. A beat poet who went big with his hugely-successful anthology The ...

Philip Roth

A review of the Jewish satirist's long career in fiction.

Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakk

They struggled to reconcile the words of earlier prophets.

Pe’ah: The Corners of Our Fields

Rabbinic commentators interpreted the law of leaving the corners of one's field for those in need in light of their own concerns about the poor.

A History of Brit Milah

Shifting views and philosophies about the Jewish practice of circumcising baby boys on the eighth day of life.

Judaism and Anthropology

Jews and Judaism have influenced--and have been influenced by--modern anthropological inquiry.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Some groups of Jews organized to fight the Nazis.

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