Holidays

Ross Weissman offers a stirring poem on hope during the trying times of coronavirus.

Abe Mezrich presents a poem on the Book of Ruth.

Yaakov Jaffe advocates adding a song to those sung while lighting Hanukkah candles.

Ben Greenfield presents Yeshivat Chovevei Torah's liturgy for commemorating Yom HaShoah.

Benjamin Marcus was commissioned to create illustrations for an illuminated manuscript of the Book of Ruth. In this one-of-a-kind article, he shares his challenges, his discoveries, and his art.

How do Moses Mendelssohn and Revelation jibe? Judah Kerbel offers some perspective.

In advance of Tisha Be-Av, Tzvi Novick annotates and interprets the kinnah of a’adeh ad hug shamayim by the master poet R. Eleazar ha-Kalir, unlocking its complex acrostic to determine who its speaker is meant to be.

Gilad Goldberg describes the bewildering experience of reporting for emergency reserve duty on October 7.

With a novel reading of Josephus and Gittin, Shana Schwartz proposes that the tragedy of the second hurban and the mystery of subsequent Jewish survival may be understood by reference to the physiological knowledge available in classical antiquity.

Ayelet Wenger offers a creative, intertextual reading of the story of Rabbi Akiva and the Wolf on the Temple Mount.