Religion & Holidays
Daily prayer breaks, the proper observance of Shabbat, and other practices focus minds against the lure of smartphones.
Rationalism, theology, and Rolling Stone.
Israeli film used to be almost exclusively—and aggressively—secular. With the rise of the ultra-Orthodox director Rama Burshtein and others, that’s changing.
A bad omen for everyone, or just non-Jews?
Where else than within the great traditions of our religions do we find the most cogent principles for helping individuals stuck in the psychic entropy of addiction?
The body, the soul, and the Jewish culture of fertility.
Fairness vs. loyalty.
They fear not outsiders, but those within their own communities.
Samson Raphael Hirsh’s critique of biblical criticism.
A bitter frost threatens this year’s crop.
Modern medicine, psychology, and behavioral science can help some addicts. But for the underlying spiritual condition, an older set of tools—like Judaism’s—has more to offer.
The brave attempt at monotheism was bound to go wrong sometimes, and when it did, the Israelites would need help putting the pieces back together again.
With one breath we mourn, with another we rejoice.