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Rabbinic conventions can--following specific guidelines--amend Jewish law.

Throughout history Jews have accepted some influences of outside religions and cultures, and rejected others.

Jewish literature is rife with allegory and metaphor.

Also known as shuckling, this movement is particularly common in Hasidic worship.

Sufi ideas found their way into Jewish mystical literature through Bahya Ibn Pakudah and the Kabbalist Isaac of Acre.

This Jewish thinker and Reconstructionist leader asked: Does belief in God make sense?

Read during the week of Passover, this biblical text is an unabashedly sensuous paean to love.

This medieval work describes the ideal life of the pious Jew.

Jews and Christians read their own ideas about authority into this ancient legislative institution.

A leading Conservative rabbi argues for the importance of encouraging inmarriage.