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

A brewing crisis at the Conservative and Reform seminaries.

Rabbinic “fellows” and their graduation odes.

Tétouan’s 500-year-old Jewish cemetery.

Demand grows while supply shrinks.

A novelist, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a courtroom.

Isaac Or Zaru’a and his journeys from Bohemia.

Almost every week reports emerge of new outbursts of anti-Jewish prejudice.

Rabbis had figured previously in Yiddish literature, but they were usually secondary characters.

“The dry heat of Africa did not stop me and the ice of Ashkenaz did not deter me.”

The Making of a Godol now sells for $2,053.

While movement-led institutions dwindle, independent seminaries are growing.

Chaim Kanievsky, of blessed memory.

Isaac Mayer Wise and Zachary Taylor.