Playing Dreidel with Kafka and Rabbi Nahman

Joey Rosenfeld takes Kafka and Rav Nahman for a spin, on their timely drey-ing of the tops!

Darkness Will Envelop Me: A Meditation on Hanukkah

Dr. Devora Steinmetz offers a meditation on the significance of Hanukkah and darkness.

Searching for the Vatican’s Menorah

Tzvi Sinensky on the lost Menorah, the Vatican theory, and the ideology of the search and mythology.

The Rome not Taken: Pompey, Pigs, and the Implosion of Hasmonean Eschatology

Aton Holzer explores the changing nature of Jewish interactions with Rome from Maccabees through the Rabbinic period.