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When discussing God, the challenge is to balance the intellectual with the emotional. Who, what, why is God?

Was the year 1840 the end of religion or the beginning? In this special podcast, David discusses the significance of the year…

There is a growing debate within Jewish circles about the term “Tikkun Olam” – meaning to fix or change the world. For…

Science and religion have long had a complicated relationship. Though they ask some of the same questions, one attributes things to God…

Our fast-paced, industrialized world seems to have little interest in mysticism, leaving reductionist thinking to lead the day. But this modernity can…

In a world where globalization is the new norm, the notion of peoplehood has lost its former clarity. While on the one…

Though the Bible’s authorship was once largely uncontested, today it is the subject of raging debate. The stakes are high: billions of…

Comedy may seem unimportant, or even counterproductive, in a society that values productivity. Religion in particular is often treated with a seriousness…

In order to understand why some people leave religion, we need to understand why people join and stay in the first place.…

The Talmud is a chaotic text with a few frustrations. When you open to the first page, it assumes that you’ve already…