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I’ve often expressed my belief that Jewish triumphalism (be it biblical or theological) is dangerous because it will likely lead ...

Over at Cross-Currents, Rabbi Yizchok Adlerstein has this to say about a new Jewish Action interview about the Bible codes ...

Yesterday I blogged about our need, as a community, to confront the darker corners of our textual tradition. I worried ...

This week, I contributed the Dvar Torah to American Jewish World Service’s Dvar Tzedek (which we also syndicate on MJL). ...

Cantillation or trope has always mesmerized me. I know of no other religion that has a similar system for chanting ...

My old friend Rabbi Jonathan Duker has just published a new book, The Spirits Behind the Law, which profiles the ...

From the Jewish Publication Society: JEWISH BIBLIOGRAPHIES FROM AJL AND JPS The Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) and the Jewish ...

Haaretz reports: In the Internet and digital information age, few publishers are willing to take on major publishing projects, like ...

American Jewish World Service just announced a new writers’ fellowship that they’re launching. Here are the details: American Jewish World ...

Over at Contentions, Hillel Halkin has posted a thought about one of the Passover Haggadah’s most difficult texts: shfokh hamatkha, ...