A Jewish-Buddhist Understanding of Holiness
May 3, 2008 By Marc Wolf | Commentary | Kedoshim
Leon Wieseltier, in a recent column in The New Republic about diversity at Harvard, commented about the church bells he heard growing up on Avenue O.
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A Painful Embrace
Dec 10, 2011 By Andrew Shugerman | Commentary | Text Study | Vayishlah
Rarely do I find a midrash like the one above that reflects love and hate, admiration and anger, in a single passage about how Jews relate to Christians. While the two rabbis quoted here agree that a peculiar scribal feature is crucial to understanding Jacob and Esau’s reunion, they fundamentally disagree about what that detail signifies.
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What The Rabbis Of The Talmud Learned From Naomi And Ruth
May 21, 2014 By Judith Hauptman | Short Video | Shavuot
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Who Are You? A Question For All Of Us
May 21, 2014 By Eliezer B. Diamond z”l | Short Video | Shavuot
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A Deer In The Sheepfold: A Conversion Tale
May 21, 2014 By Anne Lapidus Lerner | Short Video | Shavuot
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