A desecration of what is most sacred.

An emphasis on human relationships.

An 11th-century talmudic encyclopedia.

A new book argues that they weren’t, at least at first.

Along with a winepress and a magnificent synagogue.

A new book misses the mark.

From ancient tort laws to modern Israeli psychologists.

Durum wheat?

Dissenting ideas should be engaged, not demonized and dismissed.

The bathhouse of Tsipori.

Casting new light on a well-known talmudic passage.

Hebraism vs. which Hellenism?

Then as now, both.

With some rabbinic assistance.