Let’s take 18 minutes—the halakhic time limit for baking kosher-for-Passover matsot—to talk about roots related to the word matsa.

The first legal case one studies in Talmud class reads like a rather contemporary allegory. It involves two litigants invoking the principle of “finders, keepers.” Each petitioner, claiming…

Between Friends By Amos Oz. Translated by Sondra Silverston. (Mariner Books, 179 pp. $14.95 paper) The New York Times reported recently on a trend in literary fiction:

Have you heard about the latest Hanukka miracle? Some bakeries in Israel are claiming that  סוּפְגָנִיּוֹת (sufganiyyot), jelly donuts, are healthful. We won’t go into

The Hebrew root kallal or kal, means easy, simple or light.

Blatant anti-Semitism mingled with a thriving Jewish presence in this famous town, before the onset of the Holocaust.

Zionist wine lovers will certainly be pleased to hear that the biblical promise of “milk and honey” might be a metaphor for the white and red vintages that…

In The Retrospective (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 336 pp. $26), adeptly translated by Stuart Schoffman, Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua shows himself to have serious metaphysical and theological