Over at CNN, Chika Oduah writes about the assertion by Igbo Jews that they are descendants of Jacob and one…
Igbo Jews: A Lost Tribe of Israel?
Judaism
Technology and Jewish prayers
Recently, in The Atlantic, Alan Jacobs interviewed Ahron Varady and discussed how technology can aid traditional religious practices.
Tunisian Jews and the Arab Spring
In a recent article, Lin Noueihed and Terek Amara discuss the racism and fear of harassment Tunisian Jews have experienced…
Israel, secularism, and democracy
At Harvard Law School, faculty members Noah Feldman and Duncan Kennedy recently debated the question "Can Israel Be Both Jewish…
America plus nothing
But Sweet Heaven When I Die is, first and foremost, a book about loss, about death, transience, neglect, and quitting. These…
For a new migration of Abraham
At a moment when some of the theoretical gestures being inspired by old, new, or futuristic political theologies have become…
Thoughts on Near Eastern legal culture
My colleagues at The Talmud Blog asked me to provide a guest post about my research interests.
Transmitting “secular” oral traditions
Why does our academic culture operate under the assumption that “secular” education is fundamentally distinct from or superior to non-“secular”…
Kosher pork
For a brief moment yesterday, in Queens, one could purchase what appeared to be kosher pork. Philip Gourevitch explains.
The “Axis of Antisemitism”
Jonathan Rauch responds to James Kirchick's Tablet Magazine article on the shuttering of Yale's Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of…