Dara Horn’s Unexpected Passover Guide
March 19, 2025
Throughout the pages of “One Little Goat,” Passover’s timeless resonance is powerfully conveyed — after all, we are still fighting the pharaohs of our age.
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern is Senior Adviser to the Provost of Yeshiva University and Deputy Director of Y.U.’s Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought. His books include the newly released "Jewish Roots of American Liberty," "The Promise of Liberty: A Passover Haggada," "Esther in America," "Gleanings: Reflections on Ruth" and "Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States."
When Haman Came to the New World
March 12, 2025
Though more Hamans would continue to arise, the Jewish people would survive and celebrate countless Purims in a new Promised Land.
Purim’s Underwater Icon
March 6, 2025
When asked to picture an image that represents the essence of Purim, one is likely to immediately conjure up a mask, gragger or, for the strong-stomached among us, a prune-filled hamantaschen. A sign of the Zodiac wouldn’t even make the list.
Holy Mother of Moses
February 26, 2025
The mother of Moses, born on the cusp of slavery, merited living out her days in the place designated by God for the people whom her son had liberated.
The Whole of Holiness
February 18, 2025
What exactly does it mean to be a holy nation serving as the priestly spiritual inspirations to the world?
The Time Magazine Essay That Saved Sinai
February 12, 2025
The site of the giving of the Torah was about to become a tourist-packed heap of litter and Lance Morrow would have none of it.
What the Mezuzah Marks in the Current Moment
February 5, 2025
Putting up a mezuzah in one’s doorway is a timeless and meaningful means of asserting proud Jewish identity.
Pharaoh’s Daughter and the Fateful Bath
January 29, 2025
Pharaoh’s daughter’s coming down and seeing a baby crying is mirrored by God’s actions in Exodus’ third chapter.
Leopoldstadt, Vienna: An Unlikely Safe Place for Jews
January 22, 2025
Despite their country’s history and the fraught current moment, the Jews who reside where both Sigmund Freud and the founder of modern Zionism, Theodore Herzl, once lived, do not dream of relocating.
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