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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

YESHUA G.B. TOLLE | As I turned the pages of those frail, tattered, overlooked books, I found traces of a familiar desire.

JONATHAN BOYARIN | If you’ve recently driven along Route 17 in Orange County, New York

PAUL MICHAEL KURTZ | If “all men are either Jews or Greeks,” as Heinrich Heine had it

SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | Imagine a scholar of New Testament and Early Christianity who went to sleep on the eve of World War II