Freedom Riders
There is nothing subtle about the theme that runs throughout Philadelphia's National Museum of American Jewish History.
Kabbalah in 18th-Century Prague: A Response and Rejoinder
Sharron Flatto and Allan Nadler exchange views the Prague golem, Kabbalah, and Ezeliel Landau.
King James: The Harold Bloom Version
There may be a thousand facets to the Torah, but does Harold Bloom simply misunderstand the King James Bible?
Letters, Fall 2011
Hank Greenberg & Neo-Orthodoxy, or Non-Orthodoxy?
Marginalia
Israeli director Joseph Cedar's new film Footnote was anything but that at the Cannes Film Festival, despite its setting in the Hebrew University Talmud department.
Minhag America
Since the founding of the United States, the American "synagoguge" has survived as a flexible institution—some would argue, too flexible.
Next Year on the Rhine
Like Newport, Rhode Island, Worms, Germany is the quiet, waterside home to its country's most venerable synagogue—but the similarities stop there.
Quibbles
Harry Wolfson, Reinhold Niebuhr, and chutzpah.
Red Rosa
A newly published collection of letters shows a new, softer side of Rosa Luxemburg.
The Audacity of Faith
The career and life of Yehuda Amital—unconventional, unpredictable, and free of clichés.