Joshua A. Berman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought. This ...

The idea that 3300 years ago, at Sinai, God gave Moses a Torah identical to the Torah we have today is a powerful concept, one that still resonates. But is it probable, even plausible? Is it ...

Haredi students at the Ponovitz Yeshiva. Pushing the argument further, aside from the Torah leadership and others involved in governing and guiding the Jewish people returned to their homeland, in ...

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