What kind of Zionist was Gershom Scholem?

Sex and drugs and Passover Seders: In a new documentary, two sisters reflect on their years on The Farm in the 1970s

I have a lot in common with the conscientious objector. So, why can’t I stomach his decision to avoid IDF service?

Revisiting Jewish Germany history online

At a preschool Hanukkah celebration—held in a nice liberal church—an atheistic Jew wonders where he fits in, and what to tell his daughter

On Yom Kippur, a day of remembrance, offering a blessing for the life and death of books

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

A pound of flesh, a lion with a thorn in his paw, an all-powerful book—a new collection of Jewish folktales from Arab lands sheds light on the universality of the genre

This week’s parasha argues that to become a great leader one must see beyond earthly concerns. It’s a lesson Israel’s current leadership could stand to revisit.

The rabbi who co-officiated at the Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding on his journey to accepting intermarriage

A haftorah of misgivings and misplaced trust

Butler, West, others speak at Cooper Union

Tracing Hilary Putnam’s roadmap to God

A onetime scientist’s progression from atheism to spiritualism