One of my favorite examples of wordplay in Tanach is at Gen. 18:23, where Avraham is negotiating with God about the destruction of Sodom. Avraham

Did you ever wonder which words in Tanach are not Hebrew but are Egyptian? Others have been wondering as well! In 1953, the classic article

“The Pentateuch and Haftorahs” of Rabbi Dr. J.H. Hertz is one of the most important works of the Jewish religion in the 20th century. To

Reviewing: “Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court,” by David Dalin. Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life, Brandeis. Hardcover, 384 pages, 2017. ISBN-10:

The title of this column alludes to a famous TV show. (For the handful of you who don’t understand it, it is not worth explaining.)

I wrote about this topic before, but in revising my article for my forthcoming book I came across a scholarly article that made me change

In the book of Isaiah, Chapter 6, the prophet has a vision in which he sees God sitting on a throne, with seraphim above him.

Last week, my column dealt with the recital of the Shema in the Musaf Kedusha. I wrote that various sources from the Geonic period had

I grew up using the Birnbaum Siddur. For years I stared at a line in its commentary about a prohibition of the recital of the

Although there are many theories, no one knows when and why the practice of the Haftarah was instituted. The ArtScroll Siddur includes the following statement:

Ve-higadeta le-vincha bayom hahu… (“You shall tell your son on that day”) is a key verse of the Seder night. But what exactly does vehigadeta

The background to the late 19th-century Jewish settlements in Israel was a wave of pogroms in Russia in 1881. This made most of Russian Jewry