Religion & Holidays
The philosopher joins us to offer a look at a biblical book whose philosophical premises encompass the modern condition.
The Israeli director and the American rabbi team up to discuss her groundbreaking film about marriage and Jewish life.
Apart from Kol Nidrei, no High Holy Day prayer is better known than Un’taneh Tokef. But there’s a puzzle at its heart.
God’s first creative proclamation was “Let there be light,” so it might seem that the day came first. But then why does the Bible say that “it was evening and it was morning?”
A video of a discussion earlier this month with the Mosaic columnist Eli Spitzer and Sarah Rindner about the former’s attention-grabbing argument about Modern Orthodox Judaism.
More than most, Modern Orthodoxy is a movement constantly ensnared by ideological disputes. Here’s how it can survive.
Modern freedoms leave us wanting more. The author of our monthly essay joins us and a noted rabbi to talk about how conversion came to be an antidote to liberal restlessness.
According to the Talmud, when God handed down the commandments, he handed them down in every language at once.
Parent-child collaborations are rare enough in literary history. Grandparent-grandchild collaborations are unheard of, until the publication this spring of a new study of the book of Ruth.
Why should a Hebrew verb originally meaning to puncture have produced so many words relating to both the non-holy and to holes?
Meaning is sought outside of America’s houses of worship by the many young who are “spiritual but not religious.” We liberal Jews must have something to say to these seekers.
Meir Soloveichik explains how the seder’s four cups of wine elevate the holiday, while two enthusiasts recommend their favorite wines from the great regions of Jewish viticulture.
Why American Ḥaredim have responded so differently from other Jews to the pandemic.
After the golden calf, something wondrous happens. Leon Kass walks us through what that is in this final installment of our series on Exodus.
