Tanakh

Did Rabbeinu Bahya mention a lightning rod centuries before it was discovered? Yaakov Taubes takes us on a journey through science, magic, and religion to help explain this medieval commentator’s cryptic comment about the Tower of Babel.

Mark Glass puts the Akeidah in conversation with the surrounding narratives of the book of Genesis.

Judy Taubes Sterman examines Judges Chapter 3.

Does the Torah support a universalist or ethnonationalist political orientation? In this timely essay, Ezra Zuckerman Sivan explores the meaning behind key stories in Genesis through the framework of the Aleinu prayer.

Mitchell First reviews Yehuda Landy's Purim and the Persian Empire.

What sort of Jewish unity was there at Mount Sinai?

Leah Sarna argues that this is the Passover to tell the stories of enslaved Jewish women: of the victims of October 7, who were and likely still are subjected to sexual violence, and of the heroic women in the era of the Exodus, who fought to ensure the perpetuation of the Jewish people.

Tzvi Sinensky suggests that we can best understand the Haggadah against the backdrop of Sefer Devarim.

What was the covenant of peace God gave Pinchas? R. Shlomo Zuckier puts the pieces together to find out

Alex Ozar offers an in-depth reading of Eglah Arufah against the backdrop of current events.