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 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 . . .

AVI LOEB | We cannot jump off the train of time as we age. It keeps going, so we better look through its windows. . .

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

DEREK PENSLAR | For a professional historian, no life, no matter how absorbing and consequential, is removed from context. . .

DANIEL WOOLF | The titular “kingdom of darkness” derives from a biblical phrase originally referencing Satan’s dominion and . . .

PETER HARRISON | So there’s a kind of imperialistic assumption about the superiority of the intellectual apparatus that we’re operating . .

BYRON BELITSOS | If we are to face these next few decades with courage, then we need be honest about what deeds we are all capable of ...

VIKA PECHERSKY | Dostoyevsky belonged to a rare group of thinkers who never submitted themselves to the crude power of the facts of life. .

NOËL VALIS | Memory and death. The solid and the spectral. The murdered Spanish poet-playwright Federico García Lorca . . .

AQSA IJAZ | This paradox of feeling – both elusive and demanding of expression – weaves the narrative of our inner landscapes..

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