Without Tosafos noticing and raising contradictions not explicitly found in the Gemara, many many aspects and refinements to the law would remain undiscovered. (Just one example amongst hundreds ...

His books are, above all, practical – they provide information on transportation and accommodation, detailed city maps, tables for steamboat ... This is a contradiction that lies at the heart ...

Sukkot is a festival of contradictions. It celebrates a distinctly agricultural milestone (festival of ingathering), but at the same time chooses to focus on an historical event (booths in the ...

As seen in this example, FAQs should be easy to navigate ... King website gives the feeling of a literary experience. The table of contents and background set a scene of reading a book and ...

For example, the U.S. occupation of the Philippines, which began in 1899, was sugarcoated in the rhetoric of benevolence. William McKinley, who was U.S. president at the time, insisted that “the ...

A new book critiques elites’ incurious accounts of the American right and illuminates their complicity in our social ...

After Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, much of the media coverage zeroed in on Walz’s Midwestern roots, with some pundits using the phrase “Minnesota nice ...

“The problem is not what happened in the past, but how we allow negative experiences of the past to be recreated into shining stars of the future.” In a previous article, I explored how the ...