Celebrate

Whether you're throwing a party or just decorating for yourself, give your home an extra boost of Hanukkah beauty.

You can celebrate the Jewish Festival of Lights by lighting the menorah, eating fried foods, and spinning dreidels.

On Shemini Atzeret, praying for the natural resource on which all life depends.

The real message of the story we read on Yom Kippur isn't about the power of repentance, but about taking responsibility for others.

Approaching this enigmatic work as a statement of philosophy -- rather than an account of one man's search -- has confounded commentators across the centuries.

According to the Midrash, the lighting of Sabbath candles is a symbolic rectification for Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden. Why?

In praying for something as fleeting and nearly invisible as dew, this Passover prayer honors the transition from abundance to enough-ness.

Hebrew and English text of this iconic Passover song.

The haroset paste eaten at the Passover Seder recalls the mortar the Israelite slaves used to build in Egypt. So why is it so sweet?

The Mishnah says the seder must begin with the disgrace of enslavement and end with praise of God. The authors of the Haggadah did a little more than that.

More than mere expressions of gratitude, blessings are portals to other spiritual realms.