When the Bible uses maternal imagery for God.

The cessation of Kaddish and a wedding in Be’eri.

The once-a-week fundamentalist.

Idle chatter and its modern discontents.

“I mean religious, not ‘spiritual,’ or ‘transcendental,’ or any other laundered, noncommittal term.”

An acolyte of Bertrand Russell is let down.

An artist reflects on the zodiac’s Jewish significance.

A tour guide for the perplexed.

That’s the argument of a new book by the rabbi Shai Held. It doesn’t quite hold up.

The hidden meaning of Bava Metzia.

Two rabbis in a cave, and three women outside it.

Flouting Hebrew grammar and Jewish theology.

The Shulhan Arukh, 450 years later.

Scholar, wonderworker, finder of lost objects, and comic-book hero.