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ZALMAN ROTHSCHILD | Jewish law considers the topic of doubt worthy of occupying an entire category of law unto itself...

TIMOTHY LARSEN | Going into the Second World War, schooling was mandatory in Britain only up to age fourteen...

Daniel Eastman | How were Christian monks in the late antique Near East like modern cognitive psychologists?

HESCHEL AND MAGID | The history of Hasidism has been a subject of scholarly interest almost from the time of the emergence of Hasidism...

ABIGAIL AGRESTA | In 1961 Twilight Zone episode “The Midnight Sun,” a young artist struggles to survive in her New York apartment as the...

MATTHEW V. NOVENSON | In this remarkable new commentary on the Letter of Paul to the Galatians, Shabbir Akhtar says that no Muslim has...

EVAN KUEHN | Many people take the idea as mere common sense: as societies advance, religion declines...

TIMOTHY GUTMANN | In recent years, Muslim communities in the People’s Republic of China have entered a new state of precarity...

ELISSA BEMPORAD | Well-known scholars of Soviet history have failed to understand Jewish experience under communism in the early...

AUDREY FARLEY | In a 2018 Vogue magazine cover story, tennis star Serena Williams shared her harrowing experiences in the hospital...

LAWRENCE ROSEN | A civil war rages outside Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s window, trapping him in his Sana’a, Yemen home...

NATALIE JONES | One of the most defining characteristics of medieval mystical writing is its use and style of language...