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Judaism recognizes the primacy of an inner beauty, but we are nonetheless called upon to care for our bodies and not discouraged from tending to our appearance.

Synagogues share certain functional interior furnishings, but there is no architectural design or artistic style that characterizes a synagogue.

I don't eat meat, but I'm no vegetarian.

Among the many false claims about Rabbi Avraham Yitzkak HaCohen Kook is the assertion that he practiced vegetarianism.

This major 20th-century Jewish thinker saw vegetarianism as the biblical ideal to which humankind should work to return.

The ancient practice of tearing clothes is a tangible expression of grief and anger in the face of death.

What happens at the Jewish cemetery.

At death, several gestures indicate respect for the deceased as well as acceptance of the reality of death.

Common questions about Jewish death and burial customs.