Holidays

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

Chaim Saiman on halakhic change and the observance of Tisha Be-Av.

Ezra Sivan asks what light the narratives of Shabbat and the scouts shed on some critical social questions.

Akiva Shapiro offers reflections on Naomi Shemer's culture-changing song.

Elli Fischer on Rasbhi's passing, his legacy, and some other rabbinic legacies, as well.

So many of the most exciting developments in Jewish thought, explains Ariel Rackovsky, are occurring in Israel. Are American Jews sufficiently aware of them?

Jon Kelsen uncovers a deeper rabbinic meaning to the blood needed to "passover" the Israelites.

Shalva Muschel offers some perspective on George Elliot's leading Jews and the newest attempt to gain a fuller appreciation of Daniel Deronda.