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Having set the Israelites free from slavery, God charges them with building a society that affirms precisely what Egypt denies.

These two biblical brothers embody a tension that lies beneath the whole of Jewish tradition.

Hanukkah reminds that rather than running from our darkness, we can choose to confront it.

It isn't mentioned in the Bible, but Hanukkah is among the most widely observed Jewish rituals.

Abraham had to search for a grave when Sarah died. Our family was luckier.

The maze-like path of the labyrinth, leading in and out of a sacred center, echoes an ancient kabbalistic idea.

As the floodwaters rise around us, the story of Noah’s Ark calls on us to ask: What does righteousness look like in our generation?

The biblical book of Ecclesiastes offers a different way to think about time — not as a unit of measurement, but as shifting periods of emotion and action.

Jewish tradition suggests that discovering blessing is always possible — even in hard moments.

Traditionally, the Book of Ruth is read on the second day of Shavuot each year. While the story is riveting ...

In American Jewish society a joke has emerged over the past decades that supposedly summarizes all Jewish holidays: “They tried ...