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Jewish History, Modern Jewish History, Study
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.
Interfaith, Jewish History, Live, Members of the Scribe, Mysticism, Study
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.
Jewish Culture, Jewish Literature, Live
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.