Israeli society and culture are just as seemingly contradictory as are its geography and settlement.
Judaism
American Thanksgiving and the Book of Exodus.
It’s time, once again, to tell the Magilla!
People look at you strangely when you say that Yom Kippur is your favorite holiday of the...
Thoughts on the gratification of family and food.
Don't let the fact that these aren't your institutions convince you to look away from the scandal....
New Dealer looks at his complicated relationship with the holiday that is both secular and not so...
Kyle notes some fallacious reasoning on the part of Reza Aslan.
The famed bioethicist nods in approval at a Dutch politician’s assertion that animal rights trump religious freedom....
(I promised myself I would attempt to respond to this article on Yom HaShoah. The latter fell...
Via Joe Carter, a series of one-sentence summaries of the Bible from various “scholars and pastors.” None...
A few more idle thoughts on the preeminence of American Jewry: It’s not as if Jews haven’t...
Via First Thoughts, here’s a great essay on Jewish faith and fantasy writing. One of the authors...
From an interview by The Daily Beast with David Plotz on his new book Good Book (which...
