Five more of our regular writers pick several favorites each, featuring what Jews are for, magicians, assassins, call signs, chaos, separated siblings, and more.

Medieval Spain produced many Jewish geniuses. The poet and philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol, born 1000 years ago, wrote poetry that is still sung in synagogues all over the world.

The leading Conservative rabbi joins us to a look at the task facing America’s liberal denominations.

It’s not Maimonides. It’s Saadya Gaon, “the first Jewish scholar whose universal mind embraced all the branches of Jewish learning known in his time.”

Bruriah is the only female cited repeatedly as a religious authority, and rarely shown in the roles the Talmud generally associates with women. Who was she?

Six more Mosaic writers share their favorites, featuring shadow strikes, orchards, gleanings, constitutional evolutions and revolutions, serotonin, odd women, and more.

Josiah left a permanent stamp on Judaism, leading, for the first time in generations, an all-out battle against idolatry.

A leading American rabbi speaks frankly about the future of his own movement and other matters of pressing Jewish concern.

Letters, antidotes, eternal lives, outcasts, secret worlds, pogroms, and more.

Spy games, catch-67s, lionesses, smugglers, patriots, setting suns, and more.

Deuteronomy erases the separation between leader and led; for better or for worse, they’re yoked together.

There’s a reason the Torah refers to the endlessly complaining Israelites, who need a golden calf to comfort them, as “the children of Israel.”

The fire at the core of Leviticus.

In the Jewish tradition, the summit of religious awareness is to know that God is ultimately unknowable.

And how the solutions help explain the fundamental human condition.