General Editors
Peter Ochs
Steven Kepnes
Issue Editor
Mark Randall James
Managing Editor
Ashley Tate
Mark Randall James, University of Virginia
A D’var Torah for Beha’alotcha: The Search for Evocative History
Blaire French, University of Virginia
Responses:
1. Seeking Jewish Identity
The Book of Ruth: Between Story and History, Between Sacred and Secular (or, Scripture for the Pew’s Jews)
Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, Colgate University
“But Mordecai Bowed Not, Nor Did Him Reverence”: The Book of Esther’s Challenge to ‘Secular’ and to ‘Religious’ Jewish Identities
Daniel H. Weiss, University of Cambridge
“The Cap’n Crunch Effect”: A Response to Blaire French’s Essay
Mark Leuchter, Temple University
2. Rereading Jewish History
Emily Filler, Earlham College
Ashleigh Elser, University of Virginia
The Rest is Jewish History: Using the Rabbinic View of History as a Response to Blaire French’s D’var Torah
Jonathan L. Milevsky, McMaster University
Jonathan L. Milevsky, McMaster University
Between Belief and Wonder
Blaire French, University of Virginia