Dr Harry Freedman

Are USA synagogues on the road to renewal - or perdition?

A new study of religious trends inside the largest diaspora community

A poetic way to read the Psalms

The Psalms should be read as poetry, as an English rabbi's new, rhyming translation reminds us

The secret dialogue between Orthodox and Progressives

Former JC journalist Meir Persoff documents the history of the dialogue between Chief Rabbi Jakobovits and Liberal Rabbi Sidney Brichto

The phenomenal rise of Chasidism

Hasidism, A New History, David Biale and others, Princeton University Press, £37.95

A new history of Judaism

A History of Judaism, Martin Goodman, Allen Lane, £30

Luther's debt to the Jews

The role of Hebrew should not be overlooked in the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation

Why translation was a hot topic

Are Jewish weddings sexist and outdated?

In a traditional Jewish marriage, the woman technically becomes the property of her husband