In the 1950s, the future of American Orthodox Judaism looked so gloomy that the prominent sociologist Marshall Sklare predicted its imminent extinction. Sklare’s ominous forecast could not have proved ...

Seven colleagues pay tribute to the New York University historian, soon to retire, who revealed “entirely new paradigms about the study of the past.” (JTA) — Hasia Diner, renowned scholar of American ...

Yonatan Adler posits a convincing thesis, tightly and compellingly argued, that widespread observance of Pentateuchal legislation by Judeans—or what we now call Judaism—emerged no earlier than the ...

Jerusalem appears in the Jewish Bible 669 times and Zion 154 times, and not once by name in the Qu'ran. Denial of Jewish ...