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