Religion & Holidays
How the Zoom-seder debate opens up on questions of virtual reality.
Lenient rulings in response to new situations are not necessary if unfortunate accommodations, they are instead a testament to the strength and durability of Judaism.
The author of our April essay joins us to talk about how to read the book of Exodus, how the Israelites became a people, and plenty more.
Some families prefer the connection it offers. But an online seder seems like an acknowledgement of generational failure, a stopgap measure to keep nostalgic religious affiliation afloat.
Even though it takes liberties rendering the original text, a new Danish Bible breaks from anti-Semitic Christian replacement theology in a far clearer way than ever before.
Why would the most famous Jewish philosopher of all not have a Jewish name? Or did he?
What the headline-making rabbinic showdown over online seders reveals about Jewish law and its limits.
He is still full of hope, and so—in replying to those who would misunderstand me and my method of reading the Bible—am I.
It’s not that they were exceptionally sophisticated or tolerant, as one popular recent article would have it—it’s that they lived surrounded by people who raised pigs.
The conventional assignment of the family birthright to the firstborn comes under criticism in all of the family stories in Genesis; in Exodus, the issue becomes even more complicated.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews have been one of the hardest-hit groups in Israel and elsewhere. Why?
It’s hard to extract universal philosophical or political lessons from a set of books that is so resolutely particular.
Read to its tragic depths, the Bible suggests that the last, cruelest laugh is always on God.
There’s a great deal more at stake in Exodus than getting the slaves out of Egypt. What might it be?
