When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more then a century. Why, then,

I provide close readings of three stories in which figures from the Second Temple period (who often seem to have been real individuals in the Second Temple peri

Explores the life and thought of Rabbi Max Lilienthal, who created a new model for the American rabbinate. When Congregation Bene Israel hired him to come to Ci