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Thanks to FailedMessiah for pointing out a very interesting article in Biblical Archaeology Review in which Hershel Shanks interviews four ...

In the world of Jewish learning, understanding Rashi is one of the most basic—and the most difficult—skills you’ll have to ...

Thanks to our friends at American Jewish World Service and the Jewish Outreach Institute you can now read weekly Torah ...

Today is Shushan Purim, the day Purim is celebrated in cities that were “walled” at the time of Joshua. Most ...

In 2000, Harvard professor Ruth Wisse published The Modern Jewish Canon, a book that surveys two centuries of Jewish literature, ...

Hirhurim’s Gil Student has just published a review in the Jewish Press of Imrei Baruch (The Sayings of Baruch), a ...

If you haven’t yet peeked at David Plotz’s Slate feature Blogging the Bible, yesterday’s edition is a good place to ...

Apparently the new edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica takes a skeptical position on this question. Find out more here.

Today, MyJewishLearning launched its first new subject area in two years: Halakhic Texts. The section — a collection of about ...

The New York Times has released its annual list of the Top 10 books of the year, and Gary Shteyngart’s ...