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Preacher Man

Mordecai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, took his sermons very, very seriously

By Jenna Weissman Joselit

What Holds America Together?

On the eve of America’s 250th, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s covenantal politics offer a language for renewing civic life in a time of grievance and fracture

By Erica Brown
My Dying Valentine

A Swiss painting from a century ago helps us reflect on love over time

By Fannie Bialek