From the Editors ~ Rachel Havrelock


From the President ~ Marsha Rozenblit


From the Executive Director ~ Rona Sheramy


Religion and Its Discontents ~ Susannah Heschel


Aby Warburg, 1912, photographer unknown. Archeology of the Religious Imagination ~ Michael Fishbane


Rave in Florentine, Tel Aviv, 2008, by Jonathan Klinger, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Religion and Secularism: Together Forever ~ Jonathan Schorsch


A Conversation about Religious Studies and Rabbinic Texts ~ Elizabeth Shanks Alexander and Beth Berkowitz


Woodcut print depicting medieval Jewish family at the seder table, from Prague Haggadah (Prague, Gronem and Gershom ben Solomon Ha-Cohen, 1526). Beyond the Hermetically Sealed Self ~ Mara Benjamin


Cave of the prehistoric “Galilee Skull,” approximately 1900–1920, by American Colony (Jerusalem) Photo Department. G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. Rule of the Word versus Rule of the Image: Two Defining Moments ~ Brian Klug


Religion and the Birth of Jewish Radical Politics ~ Adam Sutcliffe


Super Jew, 2010, by SLR Productions, licensed under GNU Free Documentation License. Hameyvin Yavin: Language and Super Jews ~ Sarah Benor


Jewish Multiracial Network. Making Klal Yisrael Count: The Difficulties of Defining Black Jewish Communities ~ Janice Fernheimer


Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi at the University of Colorado at Boulder, January 2011. Courtesy of the Program in Jewish Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder. Jewish Renewal and the Paradigm Shift: A Conversation with Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi ~ David Shneer


Artwork Featured in The Religious Issue ~ Mindy Rose Schwartz