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Reducere. DescriptionIs laughter essential to Jewish identity? Do Jews possess special radar for recognizing members of the tribe? Since Jews live longer and...

Rabbinic stories portraying heretics (minim) typically involve a conflict over biblical interpretation. Using previously untapped Christian materia...

In this book, Jason A. Staples proposes a new paradigm for how the biblical concept of Israel developed in Early Judaism and how that concept impac...

Next Year in Jerusalem recognizes that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition. The fourteen pape...

Brandeis University is the United States' only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university, and while only being established after World War II, it ha...