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Gay Marriage: Jews vs Mormons

An email from the usually-hilarious San Francisco-based comic Heather Gold (who, by the way, you can see live on Margaret ...

Isaiah 54:1-55:5 has several layers of metaphors alluding to the great flood.

MJL’s latest biography tells the story of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the father of Modern Hebrew. So determined to bring Hebrew ...

In New York, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is testing digital ads on the sides of buses — and the ever-vigilantThe ...

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The Hebrew Bible condemns certain forms of divination and magic, while celebrating others as behaviors suitable for Israelite heroes.

Can we distinguish a mystical idea from a philosophical one--and mystical practice from magic?

In the Middle Ages, Ibn Ezra, Maimonides, and others debated the legitimacy of astrology.

Complex systems of letter and number substitution yield names for God that have been used for magical and supernatural ends.

Reincarnators aren’t the only people interested in Anne Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank was recently translated in the Khmer, ...

Ancient artifacts reveal Jewish attitudes toward incantations, demons, and the supernatural.

Today is the yahrzeit of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov — who, on our site, earns the epigraph The Man who ...