The faculty of the American Jewish University / Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies is grieved and angered at the horrific shooting at the Islamic Center
Survey finds that majority of human beings are made in the image of God (a parody) Moses received the Torah at Sinai and transmitted it
In 1906, two years after Herzl’s death, a year after the first Russian revolution, and a few years since Aaron Shmuel Tamares (1869-1931) returned despondent
Guest post by Mollie Leibowitz “Wait, we killed all of them?” My friend looked at me with tears in her eyes. “So, we killed them
Photo caption: Dovid Din at the author’s wedding, 1983 * “I have transferred all my hedonism to the spiritual level.” –Dovid Din, NYC, April 10,
There is a stark and striking difference between the absence of Moshe in the Passover Haggadah and the centrality of Moshe on Shavout. In the
Following the letter by UCLA Hillel students – disagreeing with the protesters but calling them mostly peaceful and (after the violent attack on them) pleading
The story of the erev rav is a sordid one in the history of biblical interpretation. Nahmanides famously faults them for the sin of the
guest post by Zackary Sholem Berger The Talmud is full of categories: man, woman, Jew, non-Jews, slave, poor person, rich person, am-haaretz, wise person, and
Why do we get rid of hametz (leavened products) for Passover? Joseph seems to be the first person in the Bible to accumulate grain and
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