Understanding the genius of rabbinic narrative.

When unanimity means that “there is something fishy going on.”

Athens and Jerusalem, or Macedon and Beersheva.

The origins of an ancient custom.

The dark side of a civilizational triumph.

Real-estate law, giant frogs, and the Jewish Sinbad.

While running a Jewish high school.

Roman bloodsports offended Jewish sensibilities, but that didn’t keep some from watching—or participating.

A name, a talmudic cure, and a favorite flavoring.

“Subjectivity, flexibility, and even arbitrariness are not a bug, but a feature.”

A tale of two academies.

How the rabbis subverted negative stereotypes.

Ethics of the Fathers.