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The future of Israeli literature is as uncertain as Israel's ever-fluctuating demography.

A survey of Israeli literature, from Ottoman-era Palestine to today.

One parent shares her family's thoughts about the possibility of her daughter attending a Jewish day school.

Some classical Jewish statements about sex might surprise you.

Some Jewish thinkers condone homosexuality, despite the condemnation of homosexual sex in Jewish law.

Should Jewishly-committed single women be encouraged to marry supportive non-Jewish men?

While some meaningful life events go by without any ritual to mark them, too often rituals take place without the participants experiencing any significant meaning.

Judaism may need new categories of sexual relationships in order to adjust to the reality of sex outside marriage.

Though traditional sources on the laws of mourning are quite detailed and specific, an acquaintance with this legal literature reveals a number of overarching themes and principles.

These stories are passed on as teachings about how to die.

A contemporary rabbi offers a prayer to be recited throughout the year by parents who have suffered neonatal loss.