The center of Jewish life is the Jewish home, not the synagogue prayers. Mindless prayer is no prayer, but neither is thought ...

Matt Emerson and Brandon Smith explain what the doctrine known as the inseparable operations of the Trinity is all about.

Niall Ferguson is perhaps the most influential historian, and one of the most influential intellectuals, in the world today.

Here is a list of free live streaming Rosh Hashanah services and Yom Kippur Services you can watch at home as well as a few free online High Holiday prayer books for download ... of Septermber 24th.

I am as sentimental as the next person, but once is enough to be treated to the image of a soon-to-be-forgotten moment of ...

As if a world of concrete things were to be gathered into the titular abstraction; or as if Kipling's rightness were presently to be proved remarkable in that it is all wrong. And yet, I think, ...

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From tales of utopian communes gone wrong to megalomaniacal leaders, see our picks for documentaries about cults (and where to stream them).

Why I liked it: The best books challenge what you thought you knew about the world, and this book changed the way I think about the intersection of queerness and religion. The format of "Hijab ...

“Romantic Poet,” by Diane Seuss, is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year. By A.O. Scott Book Club: Read ‘Our Evenings,’ by Alan ...

In this memoir, her sunny side is usually up. The best thing about the book, though, may be its darker aspects.” Inspired by the real-life photograph of a young prisoner at Auschwitz ...

How do you sum up a year in romance? Goodreads lists and best-seller charts make an excellent starting point, but personally, I’m more likely to take a book recommendation from people who know ...