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Settling a Debate in an NYC Cab

Earlier this week, June Hersh wrote about her perfect day, her Jewish culinary journey and unraveled the mystery of Jewish ...

That Old Time Religion: Interview with a Girl in Trouble

Alicia Jo Rabins is the frontswoman of Girls in Trouble. Their self-titled album was just released on JDub Records, and ...

Thrilling Hebrew Tales! On Jewish Vampires, Golems, Tzaddiks, and HebrewPunk

Lavie Tidhar’s new novel An Occupation of Angels is available this week. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish ...

Dramatizing the Torah

The Torah reading in most synagogues is inaccessible, the author says, and needs to be "livened up" through the use of drama and performance art.

Popular Klezmer: Pushing the Envelope

With klezmer's popularity on the rise, artists have taken it in new--and sometimes "controversial"--directions.

Conflict Films

Liberal politics in Israeli movies of the 1980s and '90s.

Genesis Means Origins

The first book of the Torah tells of the origins of the world and of the children of Israel.

Slavery in the Bible

Deuteronomy's legal treatment of slavery is more humane than the parallel laws in Exodus, and more practical than those in Leviticus.

The Book of Ezekiel

The controversial Book of Ezekiel nearly didn't make it into the biblical canon, but it has had a lasting impact on both liturgical practice and mystical traditions.

How the Book of Esther Changed

Several Greek versions of the Purim story survive, along with the biblical text we read today.

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