David Bashevkin

In 1883, the American author Henry James (1843-1916) received a distressing letter from Grace Norton, a fellow writer and friend who was…

The ancient sage Ben Bag Bag grew famous for a controversial dictum he would say (Avot 5:22): “Turn it and turn it…

In what genre is the Torah? This is a question we have come back to over and over in our conversations about…

How has religion influenced science? We often think of the relationship between religion and science as antagonistic, two friends trying to outrank…

Thinking through the relationship between the natural world and God, many point to the miracles of nature as the greatest proof to…

I am not much of a scientist. The last time I was in a formal class of physics or chemistry was in…

Science and religion have long had a complicated relationship. At times friends, other times lovers, and occasional enemies, engagement between the worlds…

Ever since I was a little child, I was fascinated by mysticism. In third grade, I used to lie to my friends…

There are many doorways to mysticism. The great Rabbi Shlomo Freifeld once made the following observation: “These days, you meet some young…

How can we appreciate disagreement in a discourse ruled by dispute? How can denizens of the 21st century, with all the intellectual self-isolation…

Can you love Judaism, but not Jews? Can one be a member of the Jewish community while living outside the institutions that…

What opinions in the Jewish conversation are valid? Who gets a voice? Laura E. Adkins is the opinions editor for the Jewish Telegraph…