Is it permitted to invite a non-Jew to your Seder? And is it a good idea? ...
The Education of an Interloper by Jack Miles t was as a student at the Hebrew University during the 1966-1967 academic
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When Jack Miles approached me with the proposition to edit the Judaism volume of the projected Norton Anthology of World Religions, I was naturally flattered but also confounded. There are, of course, many anthologies of Judaism in different formats. But the Norton anthologies are different. ...
“Listen,” says Tomás to his daughter, Daniela. “I know what you wrote.” Tomás is an academic, a Czech, who got out of Prague before the fall of communism, along with his wife, Katka, and baby Daniela. Now, he’s teaching at a two-bit college in Maine, divorced from Katka when their ...
We live in the era of Jewish historical fiction. Hundreds of novels set at some point in the long Jewish past have been published in recent years, some based on biblical stories or Jewish folk tales, others built around major historical figures. The phenomenon shows no sign of slowing, with ...
Former Prime Minister—now President—Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist Party are more powerful than ever. Is the nation’s democracy under siege? By
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Editor and publisher Nadine Epstein asks you to invite a non-Jew to your seder this year in order to help combat anti-Semitism. ...
by David W. Weiss July 14, 2014 We have just been seated on the motorized cart that takes handicapped passengers
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by Nomi Eve and Stephanie Feldman What makes Jewish historical fiction special—as an art form, and as a conversation among
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How do you decide when a candidate for conversion is ready to become Jewish? ...
Praying at the western wall first as a man, then as a woman. ...