Bound Together

February 16, 2024

Have you ever wondered why Jews were famously mercantile during the Middle Ages? Traders had difficulty communicating, explains Rabbi Tracy Kaplowitz, but Jews “have always maintained a facility in Hebrew.” Amid modern challenges to the idea of Jewish peoplehood, she argues we must rediscover — and teach the next generation — the ways we are all “bound to our God, to our Torah, to Israel and to one another.”