Historian Simon Schama explores 3,000 years of Jewish history and culture in a five-part documentary series and companion book. “The problem of the Jews,” Schama says, “was that they were a nation without a home.” More →

March 21, 2014

“We are a very noisy, verbalizing, speechifying language animal, and I love that. But we walk around as so many millions of talking books.” More →

March 21, 2014

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

November 24, 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

Texas Board of Education member Don McLeroy says he want to make sure “the founders’ dependence upon God that they wrote into the documents” is presented in public school textbooks. More →

April 30, 2010

New York’s Yeshiva University Museum has opened an exhibit called “And I Still See Their Faces.” It’s made up primarily of family photographs of members of pre-war Poland’s once thriving Jewish community. Most of those remembered in the photographs did not survive the Holocaust. More →

April 13, 2007

The exhibition “Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych” consists of religious paintings produced under the umbrella of the Roman Catholic Church and spans the 15th and 16th centuries. More →

January 5, 2007

Read an essay by Robin W. Lovin, professor of ethics at Southern Methodist University, on the implications of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ideas for modern life. More →

February 3, 2006

Read excerpts from essays and books about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. More →

February 3, 2006

Observances mark the 100th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s birth. The German theologian was involved in a plot to kill Hitler, and was subsequently put to death by the Nazis for his resistance. More →

February 3, 2006