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Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son should be seen as a unique situation never to be repeated.

A lesson in the role of discomfort in fomenting social change.

The story of the flood is an object lesson in the kinds of crimes that pose existential social threats.

The banishing of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden marks the beginning of humanity’s path to fulfilling its destiny.

A close read of four biblical verses offers a powerful insight into one of the most challenging questions religion has to answer.

The heroine of the Purim story is portrayed in contradictory ways in the biblical book that bears her name.

There are more of these fantastic Jewish creatures than you might think.

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.

Even as fewer American Jews spoke Yiddish at home, various Yiddish words and phrases were adopted into the American lexicon.

The Jewish past is not merely remembered, but continuously re-enacted.

A woman who gained accomplished rabbis as her students, Leibowitz is considered among the great Torah scholars of the 20th century.