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Excerpt — The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom

Adina Allen

August 5, 2024

Cover of Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture

Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture

Cover of On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud

Andrew Blauner, ed.

Cover of A Guide to The Guide to the Perplexed: A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork

A Guide to The Guide to the Perplexed: A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork

Lenn E. Goodman

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Curiosity and Community: My Journey in Torah Study

Leah Hager Cohen

May 20, 2024

Cover of Living with Our Dead: On Loss and Consolation

Living with Our Dead: On Loss and Consolation

Delphine Horvilleur; Lisa Appignanesi, trans.

Cover of The Living Room, Rearranged

The Living Room, Rearranged

Essay

Plagues and Hypotheses: Applying Science to the Passover Story

Jeremy Brown

April 22, 2024

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Why I’m Bringing Joseph’s Mummy With Me This Passover

Angela Himsel

April 15, 2024

Cover of Why Rain Comes from Above: Explorations in Religious Imagination

Why Rain Comes from Above: Explorations in Religious Imagination

Devora Steinmetz

Cover of The Last Words of Moses

The Last Words of Moses

Micah Goodman; Ilana Kurshan, trans.

Interview

Sermons and ‘Something Powerful’: A Conversation with Sharon Brous

Isadora Kianovsky

January 8, 2024

Essay

Seraphim, Cherubim, and More: Monsters in the Bible

Esther J. Hamori

October 27, 2023

Essay

Architecture and Judaism: Understanding Our Built World through the Ages

Joshua Skarf

October 6, 2023

Cover of I Believe: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible

I Believe: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible

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Excerpt: ‘Feeding Women of the Talmud, Feeding Ourselves’

Kenden Alfond

December 12, 2022