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There are so many stories in the Bible that I (among many people) have a hard time believing as truth.A ...

When user-testing the Tagged Tanakh, the Jewish Publication Society’s attempt to user-navigate the Bible, my first reaction was, this is ...

In her last blog, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about a family “more identifiably old American than Jewish.”Here in the U.S., ...

In her last blog, Joanna Smith Rakoff wrote about how, in her own way, Jane Austen wrote about being an ...

Joanna Smith Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age and former editor of Nextbook.org, is guest-blogging for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish ...

All clarity derives from faith, and faith is initially a composite of fear and love. The soul in its inner ...

A few months ago, when it was first released, I reviewed the Koren Sacks Siddur, the traditional prayerbook translated by ...

Robert Wright sees King Josiah as “a king who wanted to eliminate domestic political rivals. Those political rivals would have ...

One of the fascinating things about the Bible, especially the book of Genesis, is the way that family dynamics play ...

God as we encounter him in the Bible takes a risk monumental in its implications. He creates one being, humanity, ...