For thousands of years both friends and enemies of Judaism have labeled it a religion of deed rather than creed, of law rather than faith. A new book firmly and fervently disagrees.

Jacob Howland drops by our studio to talk about the ways in which Greek thought can illuminate the Talmud—and vice-versa.

As two new books show, the influence of the Hebrew Bible (and of biblical models) on the founding generations of Americans was as vast as the new country they were trying to create.

On the opening of a new academic institution devoted to study of the Hebrew Bible for its moral and political wisdom.

Why, in all of Jewish art, is there no image depicting the moment of Moses’ death?

Solomon Maimon abandoned his wife and children in search of intellectual perfection, thereby entirely missing the point.

Jonah is the anti-Moses: a prophet who wants to persuade the Lord that some people are that bad and should be made to pay for their sins.