All Content

DEBRA KAPLAN | In his 1523 treatise, That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew, Martin Luther provocatively wrote that had he been a Jew, he too would have refrained from converting to Catholicism...

MOSHE ROSMAN | Deuteronomy 25:19 is one of the more memorable — and malleable — commands the Torah proclaims...

MARTIN MENKE | New histories of the Shoah provoke a range of responses...

DAVID NIRENBERG | Judaism has inspired a hatred that has shadowed the Jews from the ancient world to the present day...

STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD | In the early 1960s Allan Sherman turned a minor comic art — the song parody — into a showbiz phenomenon...

KATIE HEFFELFINGER | Metaphors are powerful shapers of cultural concepts...

NICK RIPATRAZONE | The editors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers identify Flannery O’Connor as their unruly patron saint...

EDMON L. GALLAGHER | We don’t know where the Bible came from...

DEBORAH JUSTICE | The town square — complete with churches, shops, and public buildings — used to anchor civic communal life...

ADNAN SARWAR | He's here to talk about time spent under the fatwa...

JAMES LOEFFLER | Only one of the thousands of UN resolutions issued by the General Assembly has ever been formally revoked: the infamous GA Resolution 3379, passed on November 10, 1975...

BRADLEY M. PEPER | The late David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), arguably one of the most innovative and poignant literary voices of the last twenty-five years, was instrumental in the formation of “New Sincerity.”...