Theology

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Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. Death is an uncomfortable topic. It has deprived us of people we love, and we know that, ultimately, it is the one…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. From the breakdown of family and faith to rising political partisanship, the resurgence of anti-Semitism, and an emboldened secular dogmatism defining the…

In the modern West, the very notion that men and women have different and complimentary natures is taken as outdated at best and bigoted at worst. But the great texts of the Western tradition, beginning with the Hebrew…

The Book of Ecclesiastes is one of the most challenging in the entire Hebrew Bible. Authored in the name of “Kohelet son of David”—identified by Jewish tradition as King Solomon—the book is a deeply philosophical meditation on the…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. America is in the throes of an addiction crisis. The ravages of the opioid epidemic can be seen across the country, as…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. When Ellen Willis’s brother Michael decided to leave behind his secular American life and study in an Orthodox yeshiva in Jerusalem, she…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. When Jews raise their glasses in celebration, they toast “l’chaim!” “to life!” Judaism’s belief in the inherent value of our time in…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. The revelation at Sinai was central to the transformation of the people of Israel into a nation. Fresh from their Exodus from…

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Ours is an age in which the notion that men and women are created with distinct and complementary purposes is seen as little more than thinly veiled bigotry. But one of the great Jewish contributions to civilization is…