Judaism

I was outraged. I wanted to burn it all down. I wanted to pray.

Deborah Lipstadt shows how anti-Semitic sentiment can spring up where we least expect it.

Amos Oz feared that fanaticism was rising in Israel as well as in the West.

Even as a child, Dani Shapiro wondered whether she belonged in her family.

Paula Fredriksen challenges popular assumptions about the first generation of Christians.

Ilana Kurshan shows how the practice of Daf Yoni gave structure to a life made formless and void.

Pediatric oncologist Elisha Waldman explores a city's complexities as he reflects on his patients' spiritual needs.

Practices drawn from the Hebrew Bible are not new to the continent. Seeking full conversion to rabbinic Judaism is.

Stephen Greenblatt weaves an impressive—but incomplete—tapestry of interpretations of the story of the Fall.

Must Christianity always define itself against Judaism? The Didache didn't.

There is abundant documentation of the intertestamental period. We just haven't read it.

A breathtaking novel that bleeds existential urgency from every page

This book taught me about phylacteries. More importantly, it taught me about myself.

In Aharon Appelfeld's novel, a teenage Holocaust survivor sleeps, remembers, and learns to speak anew.

It’s rare to encounter a female protagonist in theological fiction.

A book of essays asks, is the Bible literature? How is a blessing like an oath? And what if Eve was just hungry?

Anyone with a complicated life and family—all of us—will find a home in Susan Silverman’s story.

Eight days of presents? Here are some of my literary picks.

Part history and part memoir, this volume gently immerses readers in Jewish traditions surrounding death.