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YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | Reacting out of unconscious patterns makes us poor judges, and we are all judges whether we wish to be or not. . .

MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .

 IRA GLICK & NEIL EISENBERG | The Jewish problem with athletics literally arose in the locker room.

SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | Studying how ancient sources conceive and legislate wealth, poverty, and charity highlights the extent . . .

LEAH ALPERN | Was the work feminist? Was it Orthodox? Was the combination a contradiction in terms?

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | It’s not easy to befriend sages who have been dead for centuries, but only human attachment is strong . . .

SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | The book’s focus on the pursuit of hidden wisdom and the quest to overcome human limitations . . .

DANIEL B. SCHWARTZ | Daniel Boyarin has made a career out of denaturalizing concepts like Judaism and religion.

NEIL EISENBERG & IRA D. GLICK | Given the lack of prohibition by Maimonides and the outright recommendation by the Sefer Hassidim, chess...

JOSHUA TEPLITSKY | With its close readings and reconstructions that are at once imaginative and provocatively tempting, the book

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI |The way to cure bulmos, asserts the Talmud, is to feed the sufferer whatever they demand—even forbidden food

JAMES A. DIAMOND | The problem that continues to vex is how to wrest meaning from creatures that are mythological figments