David Kraemer

A lesson from the Talmud for today's Jewish community.

The Torah reading in most synagogues is inaccessible, the author says, and needs to be "livened up" through the use of drama and performance art.

The philosophers and mystics of the Middle Ages suggested an array of solutions to the problem of suffering.

Rebecca provides a model of a powerful biblical woman who asserted her independence and her control over the future of the covenant.