Religion & Holidays
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.
The digital forces now at work on Jewish communities reflect a challenge that American churches have been wrestling with for decades now.
Why does Moses order every Levite to practice fratricide?
Moshe Koppel’s new book Judaism Straight Up looks at today’s progressive and traditional moral psychologies and finds one wanting.
This week, we learn that God wants to be known not only as the Israelites’ deliverer from bondage but also as an immediate and permanent presence in their lives.
The star of this week’s Purim story gets her point across because of the way she tells certain truths.
Does the preservation of the covenant depend upon repeated revelations and direct divine encounters, or are there more permanent ways?
One cannot exaggerate the importance of the Bible’s novel—even revolutionary—teaching about the outsider who lives among the Israelites.
God’s proposed covenant does not look to men of virtue or point to rule by philosophers or kings or prophets. The covenant is made with each and every person.
Why is the Lord so adamant about obliterating Amalek, and why does He make His intentions known?
This week, we look at the religious, political, and cultural matrix out of which Israel emerges, and the human alternative against which Israel will be defined.
Is There Any Reason the Last Digit of the Jewish Year and Last Digit of the Civil Year Are the Same?
From now until next September 6, we will be living in 5781 and 2021. Is that an accident, or is a deeper synchronicity at work?
Read along with one of our time’s great readers of the Bible as he works his way through the book of Exodus.
