The Curious Jew

There's a fantastic scene in The Winter King that sheds light on some texts in Tanakh. It appears on pages 386-387 in the hardcover ver...

A friend recommended that I check out The Saxon Tales by Bernard Cornwell, who she praised as a believable author of historical fiction. I d...

I was reading the Tisha B'av-To-Go put out by Yeshiva University, specifically the article by Rabbi Yehuda Willig , when I came across t...

As I listened to Eicha being read tonight, the following pasuk in Chapter 4   struck me: ה   הָאֹכְלִים, לְמַעֲדַנִּים, נָשַׁמּוּ, בַּחוּ...

I think it would be interesting to compare two scenes from two movies when teaching about Euthanasia. Scene 1 is from "Million Dollar...

David Moses David is the youngest child in his family (except according to some interpretations which suggest that he has one younger...

I realized that David playing Achish in Chapter 27 of Shmuel is the same as both Severus Snape being good and (spoilers if you are reading A...

I'm teaching Shmuel this year, and we are now holding in Chapter 26, where we encounter this pasuk: ו   וַיַּעַן דָּוִד וַיֹּאמֶר אֶל...

There are many times that fairy tales mimic or are based on pieces of the Tanakh. Whether or not they are intended to be that way is up fo...

Any crime show afficianado knows that often the unsub (unknown subject) often kills substitutes because they cannot or will not attack the a...

Those of you who read A Song of Ice and Fire , now more popularly known as the books that spawned the 'Game of Thrones' TV show,   m...

This review is chock full of spoilers. I just came back from "The Great Gatsby" as directed by Baz Luhrmann. I have not enjo...

As a child, I really enjoyed Mother's Day. I would take out my chalk and mark up the sidewalk in front of our house and our neighbor...

I had a thought. In the story of the massacre of the Kohanim of Nov by Doeg, King Saul first asks his advisors to put the priests to death...

1. Avimelech vs. His Brothers in Judges 9 ה   וַיָּבֹא בֵית-אָבִיו, עָפְרָתָה, וַיַּהֲרֹג אֶת-אֶחָיו בְּנֵי-יְרֻבַּעַל שִׁבְעִים אִישׁ, ע...