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.

An unusable past?

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.