Maimonides and Medinat Yisrael
Moses Maimonides may have left the Land of Israel for Egypt, but his thoughts on the messianic future are still relevant to the modern Zionist project.
Ivan the Terrible?
A new miniseries from Netflix manages to maintain the tension of the long-decided, if not entirely resolved, case of John Demjanjuk.
Touch: Passover under COVID-19
It makes sense not to touch during a pandemic. But did we truly touch before it and will we after?
Exodus and Egyptology
The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel shows why the plagues were chosen and how the Israelites sang at the reed sea.
The Play’s the Thing: A Revolutionary New Haggadah
The exodus from Egyptian bondage was a good thing. What about a haggadah that is "unbound"
Was Exodus a Trick?
“Let us deal shrewdly with them," the Bible quotes Pharaoh as saying. On the deceits of the Exodus story.
Rov in a Time of Cholera
From limiting minyan sizes to magical amulets, a look at how one rabbi faced waves of cholera epidemics over his long 19th-century career.
When Everything Matters
Bellow on Roth on TV.
The Best Revenge: A (Qualified) Case for Hunters
“I need an army,” the American Nazi says, “hundreds of ignorant white men looking for someone to blame.”
Suspecting Esther
For Seymour Epstein, the Megillah depicts the cycle of passivity and overreaction that is endemic to the diaspora.