Like Ladino, Haketiya grew out of the Spanish of Jews exiled from Spain. Like Yiddish, it has a range of loving, spiteful, sarcastic, ironic, anxious, and superstitious expressions.
The author of “The Anguished Dilemma of a Reform Rabbi” explains his opposition to a recent blockbuster change in Reform policy.
An introduction to one of the masters of modern Hebrew fiction.
The rabbi and scholar of just-war theory looks at the ethical parameters for nations thinking about going to war.
In honor of Shavuot, the Jewish holiday that celebrates lawgiving, a discussion about the essence of Jewish law.
A rivalry between the Jewish numerical and European pagan-astronomical nomenclatures for the seven-day week has played out over millennia across the world.
The longtime observer of American Jews looks at the Jews who see Israel as a moral encumbrance, and what they imagine would happen without it.
Discussing the contention that “civilization” came into the drama of human history with God’s covenantal promise to Abraham and his children.
It was only in the early-to-mid first millennium BCE that both the ancient Babylonians and the ancient Hebrews began dividing their lunar months into seven-day periods.
The foreign-policy expert explains how Egypt assesses its own interests, what its goals are in Gaza, and the future of its peace treaty with Israel.
Is the surprisingly furious debate over how religious Jews should celebrate Israeli Independence Day nearing an end?
To mark the 76th anniversary of Israel’s founding, the historian looks at the national anthem’s story, mysteries, and paradoxes.
In trying to take references to October 7 out of the Israeli singer’s now-famous song “Hurricane,” the competition both accidentally improved it and made her a cause célèbre.
As a possible Rafah incursion awaits the IDF, the author of a new volume on Jewish just-war theory explains the moral issues at stake.
