Send Her Back to Herself
An Israelite soldier comes home from war with a woman.
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Remembering the Exodus
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Oh, and One More Thing
Parashat Eikev uses the lowly image of the "heel" (ekev) to demonstrate that Israel’s status as a chosen people is dynamic not inevitable.
Without Precedent
Have You Ever Seen Anything Like Israel in the History of the World?
The Losing Argument
Kalir's Az Bahaloch Yirmiyahu as a Theory of Jewish Survival
Eicha: How / Oy / Where are You?
God's Love for Israel Overrides the Irreversibility of Divorce Law
Your Words Matter
The Journey from "I" to "We" in the Plains of Moab
Walking in Front
Moses's Prayer for a Successor
Jewish History Rhymes
After Egypt, Moab
Ash in Living Water
In the spring of 1717, in a rented house in Constantinople, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu watched an old Greek woman heal children with the disease that was killing them.