Essay
The Jews Who Saved Monticello
Thomas Jefferson’s home lay in ruin until Uriah Phillips Levy stepped in to help.
Essay
Cecil B. DeMille was Right
The great filmmaker argued that America owed its greatness to the Jewish Passover story.
Essay
Judaism Doesn’t Need This ‘Genius’
You can't understand Judaism without studying it.
Essay
Who Invited God to the Inauguration?
‘Pious gratitude’ has been a part of the ceremony since Washington.
Essay
King David
What the life of the Bible's greatest monarch can teach us about Jewish politics and…
Essay
The Secret Jews of the Hobbit
From the Middle East to Middle Earth.
Essay
Finding God in the Olympic Footrace
‘Chariots of Fire’ offers a message on athletic greatness and the doping scandal.
Essay
Meir Solveichik on Yuval Levin’s ‘The Fractured Republic’
What the "revolution in the structure of American religiosity" means for the United States.
Essay
‘We Have Not Yet Appointed a Hebrew’
The mutual fascination of Abraham Lincoln and the Jews.
Essay
God and the Fourth of July
Asked to propose a national seal in 1776, Franklin and Jefferson chose religious themes.