The lay of the land earns educator a Fulbright “In Judaism, maybe ‘shmita’ has been an ideal, but it’s aspirational, too,” says religious-studies professor Adrienne Krone. Carin M. Smilk June 21, 2024
600-year-old manuscript reveals lost French-Jewish intellectual stream "Mezukak Shivatayim" is among the few rare books to represent the vanished Jewish community of Provence. June 7, 2024
‘Hard-pressed’ to imagine world without ‘Shulchan Aruch’ 450 years after Joseph Caro’s death, experts say The Sephardic rabbi, who died in 1575, is one of history’s most renowned codifiers of Jewish law and writers on Jewish mysticism. Menachem Wecker May 20, 2024
Who is a Jew? Who is a Kohen? Spiritual identity goes beyond biology. Rabbi Yossy Goldman Feb. 21, 2024
Rare limestone box from Second Temple era uncovered in Jerusalem The box is likely related to the unique economy of Jerusalem in the shadow of the Temple, which involved strict adherence to Jewish law, researchers say. Feb. 21, 2024
Meet the ‘Legal Eagles’ of ‘Religious Land Use’ Battles have had to be waged on the city, state and federal levels to prove that the construction and maintenance of eruvs is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. Elizabeth Kratz Feb. 5, 2024
Judaism is not a state of mind Conversion is a one-way street; an individual will always be Jewish from this point on, even if that person changes his or her mind. Rav Hayim Leiter Feb. 2, 2024
London authority refuses ‘inharmonious’ plan to allow kohanim to use Tube The local council concluded that “public benefits would not outweigh the harm” in changes to allow certain Jews to use several London Underground lines. Georgia L. Gilholy Dec. 4, 2023
!["Mezukak Shivatayim," a rare manuscript with an unpublished commentary on Maimonides's Code of Jewish Law [Mishneh Torah] written in Provence by the 14th century scholar Rabbi Joseph ben Shaul Kimhi. Credit: Courtesy of NLI.](https://cdn.jns.org/uploads/2024/06/Mezukak-Shivatayim-660x440.jpg "\"Mezukak Shivatayim,\" a rare manuscript with an unpublished commentary on Maimonides's Code of Jewish Law [Mishneh Torah] written in Provence by the 14th century scholar Rabbi Joseph ben Shaul Kimhi. Credit: Courtesy of NLI.")
