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Calling someone a Jew is not a neutral act. In her new book, Cynthia Baker explains with exemplary clarity how for much of their history the term Jew and its adjacencies...

LAMIN SANNEH | The many attempts to explain what went wrong with the Muslim world, with its outbreaks of violent extremism against...

JACOB LABENDZ | “Trump is not Hitler.”...

THOMAS J. MILLAY | Any serious consideration of the story of Abraham and Isaac is bound to produce anxiety—perhaps even sleep deprivation...

RYAN SCHRAM | For many years, Vilaça has conducted ethnographic research among Wari’, whose villages lie in reservations in the...

NILE GREEN | Smartphone in hand, with a carefully trimmed beard and a constant eye on his Twitter account...

As Leopold Zunz once wrote, “Genuine scholarship is generative.”

When my nephew was about eight or so, he went to school one day and, upon returning home, announced, “I saw a Jew in school today.”

ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED | It is a potent time to rethink identity.

KAROLINA PROCHOWNIK | Cognitive science of religion (CSR) is a recent discipline that examines naturally evolved cognitive processes that...

ABRAM LUEDERS | As American culture underwent the metamorphosis of late modernity, evangelical Christians signed up for the resistance...

CIAHNAN DARRELL | The lie called race makes Judases of us all, bleeding the human until all that remains is an abstraction with no claim...