Volume 2, Number 1
Click here to download the PDF version of this entire issue.From the Editors
essays
“Not Much Is Really Sacred”
by Michael Fraade
Bob Dylan, the Bible, and the Jews.
Taking Texts Along For The Ride
by Richard Kahn
On the modern creation of Midrash to further political aims.
Strangers And Sojourners Among…Us?
by Yishai Schwartz
Those at the center of a constant tension in Judaic Studies.
Let Us Make God In Our Image, After Our Likeness
by Sahar Segal
How the Bible portrays an image of God that is not All-Good.
A Kingdom Of Plaster And Paradise
by Yedidya Schwartz
The Jewish community of Fes: 818 C.E.
Chabad And Man At Yale
by Rebecca Linfield
The Rebbe’s dream, played out on the college campus.
“The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai”
by Annie Atura
Planning, purpose, and pleasure in the Book of Esther.
Reclaiming the Text
by Shira Petrack
Differentiating Judaism from universal ethics.
The Conversion Problem
by Shai Kamin
Perspectives on the never-ending debate.
Acoustic Guitars on the Bimah
by Harris Eppsteiner
Thoughts on the influence of folk-rock on the modern prayer service.
Tsurik Lernen Alef-Beys
by Josh Price
Yankev Glatshteyn’s Bratslaver poetry.