The detail in the story of the exodus is highly emphasized in the Torah, yet at first sight it appears almost unintelligible. Here is the

The path from the laboratory to a patient’s bedside got longer and tougher to navigate these past 20 years. Today, it can move from cells

No serious thinker has done more harm to the Jewish people than Friedrich Nietzsche. Born in Prussia in 1844, Nietzsche died in 1900; his writings

I hoped I was done with flimflam in 1952 when a Coney Island fortuneteller sent my Orthodox mother’s life savings up in smoke. But now

For the past few weeks, I have been composing in my head an extended poem on the pleasures of sleeping alone. Chief among them is

A few weeks after Nancy G. Brinker completed chemotherapy for breast cancer, she got back on her horse and rode in a polo tournament with

I recently spent two nights with my sister and her husband, Joshua Cahan, at a private beach house on the Pacific. The trip was a

At the elite Prozdor Hebrew High School in New York, I asked a class of 20 students—the cream of the Conservative movement’s crop—how many of