Is falconry kosher?
New scholarship captures the fierce but failed attempt to dethrone Judaism’s preeminent biblical commentator
An overlooked golden age of Jewish culture flowered in the cities of Istanbul, Edirne, Salonica, Izmir, Aleppo, Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, and Alexandria—where almost no Jews live today
Opposing rabbinic conceptions of marriage and matchmaking in Ashkenaz and Sepharad
New translations of the Hebrew Golden Age poetry of Solomon Ibn Gabirol reveal a man for our time
A vitriolic medieval manuscript illuminates how Google is destroying the act of reading
A friend and former classmate pays tribute to the late scholar and author
Three rare medieval Hebrew Bibles on display at the Metropolitan Museum in New York reveal the affinity between Sephardic and Islamic texts
A new exhibition explores the overlapping worlds of Christian and Jewish art in medieval Spain
Rashi has been selected as one of the Best Books of 2009 by Publishers Weekly.