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Dead Sea Scrolls

Ancient documents give a glimpse into Second Temple life.

A bibliographical summary of Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.

This week Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life announced that it has been made a full member of the ...

This is an overview of ancient texts that came after the bible but before rabbinic literature.

Yesterday I noted the passing of Mir rosh yeshivah, Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum. The New York Times obituary cites the AP ...

It’s primary day in New Hampshire, and it seems the whole country is (and rightfully should be) talking about who ...

In response to PBS’s newÂ series chronicling Jewish Americans, Jonathan Sarna has an essay on “On Faith” that examines the reemergence ...

Recent stories about conversion standards in Israel have revolved around halakhic observance (or the lack thereof), but an interesting case ...

Kudos to the Orthodox Union for swiftly condemning Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe’s public remarks that Israeli leaders Ehud Omert, Tzipi ...

Congressman Tom Lantos has announced that he’ll be retiring because of illness. Lantos is the only Holocaust survivor ever elected ...

-An association of hundreds of Israeli rabbis called the Rabbinical Congress for Peace – Pikuach Nefesh recently wrote U.S. President ...

Yesterday, I took in a viewing of Charlie Wilson’s War, the Aaron Sorkin-written, Tom Hanks-acted film about the congressman responsible ...