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Mitzvot: Contemporary Understandings

For Jewish religious thinkers in our time, the question "why observe mitzvot?" has become a central and critical concern. Some answers echo earlier periods, some are new.

International Transgender Day of Visibility: A Jewish Perspective

For a while, just as Transgender Day of Remembrance was getting established as an observance, a competing movement emerged. That ...

Passover and Easter

Both celebrate spring and hope, though there are major differences between them also.

Why I Balked At Disneyland on Yom Kippur

How do you confess to a sin without believing in sin?

Interview (and a free JDub album!) with Wailing Wall

Today, JDub Records releases their first-ever free debut album — Wailing Wall’s debut record, Hospital Blossoms. Follow that link to ...

Portable Holiness

Holiness derives from encounters with God in Torah study; it is not intrinsic to locations like Mount Sinai.

Mitzvot: Contemporary Thought

On history, spirituality, obligation, and standing at Sinai.

Philip Roth: Selected Works

Jewish-American fiction's favorite troublemaker.

A Jewish Bookseller’s View

Booksellers View of Jewish Texts. What Makes a Text Jewish. What are Jewish Texts. About Jewish Texts. Jewish Texts. People of the Book.

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