Search Results

Search for    in    All Categories Daily Features Daily Picks The Weekly Portion   

You can also browse by author, browse by source, or view the archives.

Customs and Ceremonies

On a massive 18th-century book that illustrated the diverse religious lives, and the underlying common humanity, of Christians, Muslims, Hindus, native Americans, and Jews.Sisera Was Here

Is a round, 3,200-year-old bronze tablet part of a linchpin from the Canaanite general's war chariot?The Flotilla: An Interim Balance Sheet

Hamas's efforts to bust the blockade of Gaza, far from strengthening the Islamists, may prove to have the opposite effect.Fanatics Have No Fun

Fear of enjoyment is a singular, doctrinal feature of Islamist states and movements, as today's Iran exemplifies.You Religious?

Joseph Telushkin, named by Newsweek as one of America's most influential rabbis, commends the teaching of the sage Hillel that ethics is not secondary to ritual. (Video)Making Music to His Name

Apropos the playing of musical instruments on the Sabbath: why did the rabbis proscribe what the Lord prescribed? From Ally to Enemy

Turkey, the only successful Muslim country in the Middle East, is today an Islamic republic in all but name.Call it Fascism

Gaza is a brutal place with a totalitarian government steeped in a cult of violence and death. Why does it receive support from "useful idiots" in the West?The Politics of Babel

At the very core of the Hebrew Bible lies an insistence on the centrality of the ethnic-cultural state.