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Rebecca Gratz

The woman who created the American-style Hebrew school demonstrated that one could be fully Jewish and fully American.

God’s Gender: A Traditionalist View

If we reject male God language, we lose a powerful metaphor: the husband-wife relationship between God and the Jews.

The 4 Most Important Things the Maccabees Teach Us

Lessons in hope, courage, purity, and faith, from the Maccabees and the Hanukkah miracles.

Seeking Fact, Finding the Unknowable

Debra Spark is the author of The Pretty Girl, a collection of stories about art and deception.In literature, as in ...

Settling a Debate in an NYC Cab

Earlier this week, June Hersh wrote about her perfect day, her Jewish culinary journey and unraveled the mystery of Jewish ...

Thrilling Hebrew Tales! On Jewish Vampires, Golems, Tzaddiks, and HebrewPunk

Lavie Tidhar’s new novel An Occupation of Angels is available this week. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish ...

That Old Time Religion: Interview with a Girl in Trouble

Alicia Jo Rabins is the frontswoman of Girls in Trouble. Their self-titled album was just released on JDub Records, and ...

How the Book of Esther Changed

Several Greek versions of the Purim story survive, along with the biblical text we read today.

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.

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