My assumption is that people who read op-ed columns like books as gifts. So with the efficiency of Amazon Prime delivery and Christmas still three days away, a few suggestions: ...

Social justice is more than a footnote in the Torah. It's a central theme, Little Rock Rabbi Barry Block maintains. The Holiness Code in Leviticus requires more than sacrifices and Sabbath observance; ...

The evolution of a tiny group of mostly Jewish New York intellectuals from left-wing radicals in the late 1930s and ’40s to confidants of the Reagan and both Bush administrations continues to ...

Rabbi David Kasher, associate rabbi at IKAR, is a self-described “Torah nerd.” For five years, he kept up a weekly parsha blog and became totally immersed in Torah commentary. He had books open all ...

Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Wither­ington III have written a unique commentary on Luke—the one I’ll turn to first for the foreseeable future. The first major commentary cowritten by a Jew and a Christian, ...

How do they do it? When confronted with a dramatic situation for our favorite club or a stressful moment in an engaging match, we usually regress to unintelligible sounds or a series of annoying ...

Commentator Andrei Codrescu laments the hard time non-blockbusters have catching browsers' attention on bookstore shelves. He details the thought-process that a potential reader goes through in making ...

Jeannine Brown, professor of New Testament and director of online programs, has taught at Bethel Seminary for more than 25 years. She has a gift for translating biblical truth into accessible language ...

That, at least, is what the research suggests about the benefits of reading. Amid the social isolation and collective constraint of the coronavirus pandemic, there may be no simpler way to improve the ...

SINGAPORE: Book clubs are here, there, everywhere these days. I would know – I started one myself. Despite the book club hype, reading itself seems to be on the decline in Singapore amid a wave of ...