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Interview Torah and Midrash as the Rich Humus for Poems: A Conversation with Jessica Jacobs Julie R. Enszer March 11, 2024
Essay How Elie Wiesel Taught Me to Grapple with Difficult Religious Texts When a text disappoints us with an anti-human message, we will avoid the sin of premature forgiveness, of letting the text off the hook too easily. Ariel Burger February 26, 2019
Essay In the Beginning, Dr. Ruth Read Genesis Beth Kissileff is the editor of Reading Genesis: Beginnings, a collection of essays on the Hebrew Bible by experts in range of non-rabbinic fields. Beth is blogging… Beth Kissileff February 29, 2016