The many works on view at the Met in New York demonstrate how artistic motifs were shared and used by people of different faiths in different regions over the centuries. More →

July 27, 2012

As the world celebrates the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, is its voice receding in American culture? More →

September 20, 2011

On Purim, says Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, the more you can poke fun at the gravitas of life, the better. More →

March 18, 2011

“The psalms continue to be wholly relevant to our spiritual quests today,” says poet, writer, and former rabbinical student Pamela Greenberg. More →

November 24, 2010

Watch more of producer Susan Goldstein’s interview with writer Pamela Greenberg, whose new translation of the Book of Psalms is being praised for its literary beauty. More →

November 24, 2010

View a gallery of images illuminating the psalms by Hebrew manuscript artist Debra Band. More →

November 24, 2010

Watch more of producer Susan Goldstein’s interview about the psalms with poet and writer Pamela Greenberg, whose new book, The Complete Psalms: The Book of Prayer Songs in a New Translation (Bloomsbury, 2010), is being praised for its literary beauty.

July 2, 2010

View a gallery of selected details from an anthology of 36 psalms, “I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms,” by Hebrew manuscript artist Debra Band (Jewish Publication Society, 2007). In her introduction to the illuminations she writes: “Just as psalms … More →

July 2, 2010

Passover’s ancient themes of freedom, liberation, and transformation are sacred to Jews and shared by everyone, says Rabbi Amy Eilberg. More →

March 26, 2010

At the center of Judaism, writes Yale University scholar and critic David Gelernter, is “a thread of ecstasy…the whole world, space and time and suffering and all, pulled together by triumphant jubilation.” More →

January 7, 2010