It might come as a surprise to the most devoted comic book and cinematic aficionados that millennia before Kevin Feige and Co. dreamed up Marvel’s Multiverse, the ancient rabbis cast Mordecai of the Megillah of Esther in a strikingly similar context. 

In celebration of Presidents Day 2024, Yeshiva University’s Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought and OpenDor Media are partnering in the production and release of a series of four short videos for educators, showcasing the Hebrew Bible’s impact on the annals of American heroism

As Daniel Ross Goodman notes in his recently published “Soloveitchik’s Children,” Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik wrote early and often of Jewish dialectics — the dynamic tension of holding oppositional ideas in tandem.

Few Americans realize that as the Jewish community begins reading the book of Exodus in the weekly Torah cycle, the text being studied is actually one of the political and moral founding documents of the United States.

Best to make like Jacob’s favorite son and realize that it’s less about how we dress and more about what we dream.