Years ago, I read After Auschwitz: History, Theology, and Contemporary Judaism, Richard Rubenstein’s painful little book published in 1966. It argues that the covenant between God

A Prophet and His Wife For 60 years, Milton Steinberg’s unfinished novel, Prophet’s Wife, lay forgotten in an archive at Behrman House publishers. Steinberg is perhaps

In a renowned biblical love-triangle, a destitute widow cares for her equally destitute mother-in-law, and an elderly rich man falls in love with the daughter

We Jews mourn the millions of deaths of those murdered in the Shoah as well as throughout our long history of powerlessness before the state of

Prayers of kingship, malkhuyot, are present in the Rosh Hashana liturgy. Yet the concept of malkhut (kingship) has been problematic since Saul, the first Hebrew king. Saul, you

How do we think of Bible stories—as literal history, or as poetry intended to give us the deepest sense of the sacred? Sometimes we toggle

Every spring I admire the purple-pink flowers on the redbud tree. Its other name, the Judas tree, puzzled me until the autumn day when seedpods

What do Jewish novels do for the Jewish community? Not long ago, a journalist-turned-Orthodox Jew attacked Jewish novelists for “picking on” the Orthodox in fiction.