College Commons

Middle East Historian Louis Fishman reshapes our understanding of the birth of Zionism in its Ottoman context.

Rabbi Marc Katz uses the historical imagination to plumb the depths of Judaism’s greatest choice for survival.

Rabbi Elliot asks us to approach difficult times with depth of mind and spirit.

Rabbi Joshua Weinberg tackles both the complexity and the clarity of vision embedded in the idea of Liberal Zionism.

Poet Menachem Rosensaft transforms the Psalms into a search for God who permitted the Holocaust.

Who are we and where is home? Author Yariv Inbar investigates through the mental tightrope of espionage.

Aryeh Ben David plumbs the diaries of the epochal thinker Rav Kook. He finds the imperative of love.

Author Mari Lowe explores adolescence through the lens of the Orthodox experience – both unique and common to all.

Deborah Dash Moore transports us to midcentury New York and the photographer who captured its people from street level.

Shai Held puts love at the center of Judaism, and explains why it may surprise you.

Jeremy Brown’s Eleventh Plague captures Jewish responses to pandemics from across the millennia.

Julia Watts-Belser reveals disability as an engine for human creativity and spiritual depth - for everyone.

Richard Ho celebrates the Chinese and Jewish New Years – in the same family under the same lunar cycle.

Rabbi Yonatan Neril frames the ecological crisis in spiritual terms.

Dr. Paul Zeitz explores solutions to our greatest challenges, from our inner selves to the world around us.

John Inazu dissects disagreement to find opportunities for social trust, faith and democratic flourishing.

Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe invites us on his journey of healing and human solidarity.

Reform Judaism’s pioneering decision to mandate study in Jerusalem.

Hélèn Jawhara Piñer uncovers the Jewish secrets of a 13th-century Arab-language cookbook.

Stephen Mills shares his story of sexual abuse and reminds us of our still-unfulfilled obligations of protection and justice. Stephen Mills is the author of Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. He's also the co-author of Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Since 1982 he has advised and written for an array of public interest organizations in the fields of human rights and environmental protection. Stephen is honored to serve as an Ambassador for CHILD USA, the leading nonprofit think tank fighting for the civil rights of children. He lives in California with his wife, Susan.