And what it tells us about the lives of ordinary Jews.
Understanding the genius of rabbinic narrative.
How the rabbis subverted negative stereotypes.
Joseph B. Soloveitchik and women’s education.
A dispute between the old world and the new?
With photographs.
Family purity comes to Instagram, with a sprinkling of humor.
The “Bruriah episode” and a medieval scribal error.
Authors, scribes, typesetters, publishers, and illustrators.
Quotidian piety.
Jacob Frank and his daughter Eva claimed the mantle of Shabbetai Tzvi.
Leah Horovitz’s tkhines.
A movement from within.