Religion & Holidays
The meaning of “nakedness.”
Not packaged, not square, not oven-baked: that’s what it wasn’t. But what it was and where the name for it comes from is still something of a mystery.
A few months ago, I was approached with a request to become involved in a then-secret mission: to examine one of the very few high-medieval Haggadahs still in private hands.
Why the first of Nisan, which falls on this coming Saturday, would seem to be the most important date of all.
Convenient advertising.
The ends don’t justify the means.
Can Measure for Measure help explain the biblical book?
What Lieberman saw that Heschel didn’t.
The Tractate of Drunkards.
A new book argues that they weren’t, at least at first.
Precious little, you would think. But actually, thanks to one figure in the story, quite a lot.
Esther’s central question is whether the Jewish people will continue in exile.
Sacrifices are not bribes.
A two-faith nation.
