Two competing responses to blood in the sanctuary.

Originally, the kindling of lights was not part of the holiday.

For Herzl, Zionism was not merely about providing an escape from anti-Semitism.

American Judaism is losing both commitment and moderation.

May God avenge their blood.

Not a religion, but a marketing scheme.

Chaim Potok’s forgotten play about S. An-Sky.

Projecting fantasies of power.

What the ultra-Orthodox can learn from Burke and Oakeshott.

“I benefited from many Jewish guides and guideposts on my road to Roman Catholicism.”

In some ways, halakhah is more about social norms than about law.

The Sabbath is universal, but the holidays speak to Jewish particularity.

Then as now, both.

Feelings of awe, and dependence on God, are not the same as devotion.