Unwanted thoughts barging in all day can make a good person feel like a fraud. The Tanya, a 200-year-old classic of Jewish wisdom, says that inner battle means something very different.
Brother Daniel wore a monk’s robes and prayed in a church. He also insisted he was Jewish. Israel’s Supreme Court and Jewish law gave two very different answers.
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.
Scientists say AI is heading toward something stranger than chatbots: minds grown from biology, not code. Judaism has a 1,500-year-old story about exactly this moment.
Not everything good feels sweet in the moment, and not everything sweet is actually good. A closer look at the classic Rosh Hashanah blessing, and what it's really asking of us.
Holding an ancient coin concretized our nation’s bond to the land of Israel. But archaeology is replete with interpretation and needs to be presented with nuance and honesty.
Hitler's Jew-hatred was a thought-out worldview that believed Jewish ethics like equality, compassion, and human dignity threatened the “natural order.”
Zionism has been weaponized and stripped of its meaning. Here's what it actually means, why it matters, and why what's unfolding right now looks a lot like a miracle.
Rabbi Akiva famously taught that "love your neighbor as yourself" is the overarching principle of the Torah. Why did 24,000 of his students die for failing to do exactly that?
Every wave of new technology produces the same response from experts: this will destroy quality. They're partly right. And partly protecting something else entirely.
When Did Thin Become the Measure of a Woman’s Worth?
