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Reconstructionist Judaism Offers Egalitarian Divorce Options

In addition to the traditional get (bill of divorce) granted by the husband, Reconstructionism offers a woman-initiated get and a mutual get.

Liturgy, Ritual and Custom of Divorce

What's involved in dissolving a Jewish marriage.

Sarah in the Bible

How historical evidence shapes our understanding of this biblical matriarch.

Taxing Times

The economic history of the Jews in Palestine in late antiquity

Rufina and Her Sisters

Jewish women in the Diaspora.

The Shiur Komah: Imaging the Divine

A text's physical description of God might actually have been intended to emphasize God's indescribability.

What Is Chabad?

This once small Hasidic group has grown to unparalleled global influence.

Heaven and Hell in Jewish Tradition

Jewish sources are conflicted about what happens after we die.

Jewish-Christian Relations Today

Though Jews and Christians have had a complicated and tense relationship, relations today are better than ever.

Spinoza and the Philosophical Impossibility of a Chosen People

Jewish chosenness is not a metaphysical reality. It derives from the conditions of a particularly prosperous period in Israelite history.

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