Dovid Bashevkin is the Director of Education at NCSY and author of Sin·a·gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought. He is the founder of 18Forty, a media site exploring big Jewish questions. His Twitter feed is @DBashIdeas.
Isaac Newton owned more books on theology than science, including a Latin translation of Jewish mysticism. What he found there changed how he saw the universe.
Why is the ketubah, this mundane financial document guaranteeing the rights of the woman, so paradigmatic of the Jewish marriage? And why bother decorating it?
Peace Prize Winner Navi Pillay’s Long Record of Anti-Israel Hatred
