How fear that a single Jew could transform Western society into a Jewish empire led to a broader anti-Semitism
In this week’s ‘Daf Yomi,’ ancient Talmudic rabbis look for the First and Second Temples without stones or relics to guide them
Why we owe our sensibility, our neurosis, and our sense of peoplehood to that one fateful day millennia ago
How the Vatican warmed to Jews over the last century
How the technique of chancing upon a passage in a Torah scroll or printed Pentateuch came to be a staple of fortune tellers
The 17th of Tammuz, which falls on Tuesday, has additional meaning this year
Ruins from Second Temple period uncovered during construction of new hotel
Yet another difficult internal and ancient debate that modern Jews are unlikely to resolve
Judaism’s manual of sacred technology prizes holiness over beauty, action over thought, and ritual over belief
Introducing Rabbi David Wolpe’s new series on Jewish scholarship
The great Judean builder and his outsized ego are the subject of a monumental Israel Museum exhibit
On my list of worries this Tisha B’Av: Iran, Egypt—and the ugly ways we Jews talk to one another
Creating Jewishness in a post-religious age: Leon Uris’ Exodus and S.Y. Agnon’s Only Yesterday paint Israel’s history in broad and fine strokes
Everything you ever wanted to know about the countdown to Tisha B’Av
How Judaism remade itself in the wake of the Second Temple’s destruction
