Study

The commandment to rebuke one another teaches the importance of mutual responsibility.

The prohibition against interbreeding animals and plants raises questions about the kashrut of genetically modified foods.

The philosophers and mystics of the Middle Ages suggested an array of solutions to the problem of suffering.

At Sinai, the Israelites pledged their allegiance to God and accepted the punishments that would result if they betrayed God.

Sometimes there is a conflict between the mandate to save lives and the mandate to avoid health risks.

Is there something uniquely Jewish about the poetry of Jewish Americans?

A writer who used the Jew as a metaphor for humankind.

Jewish socialism influenced Grace Paley's life and literature.

The most successful Jewish American writer may be the most ambivalent as well.

At mid 20th century, Jewish writers connected with American readers by writing about alienation.

The founder and editor of the Forward wrote one of the most important American immigrant novels ever.

In America, a female sweatshop worker from a Polish shtetl could become a renowned writer and Hollywood commodity.