"What is it to be human? Nothing abstract."

My second blog for Times of Israel draws a connection between the shofar and the mysterious, powerful Kol Nidrei text for Yom Kippur.

My first blog at Times of Israel is a reflection on the duality of joy and judgment in the Rosh Hashanah prayers.

Fusing together passages from 300 books, Days of Awe explores the High Holidays in their grand meaning and loveliest intricacies.

There is no book in the English language more charming than The Wind in the Willows.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is as delightfully strange as its adaptations. What I couldn’t anticipate was its dreamlike calm.

The greatest Talmudist of the 20th century is unknown in the community that cares most about the Talmud—the Orthodox. That wasn’t always so.

Cracked up by divorce and disillusionment, Moses E. Herzog writes letters to the living and the dead.

Rose Macaulay is our witty guide to eight centuries of Anglo-Portuguese exchange.