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Discretion in appearance and speech is designed to protect our souls from assault by a coarse world.

From the land of Israel to Diaspora.

In the Middle Ages, a Jewish woman's social well-being was considered important, but her life was strictly guided by Jewish law.

Part of what makes the art scene in Israel so unique is that the country blends so many varying influences from all over the Jewish world.

This "fifth denomination," founded in the 1960s by a Reform-ordained rabbi, describes itself as humanistic rather than atheistic.

Music has been a part of Jewish life since biblical times, and remains integral to Jewish religious and cultural experiences.

The Tosafists continued the conversation with their glosses on the text of the Talmud.

This Orthodox spiritual revivalist movement emerged in 18th-century Eastern Europe.

Literature in Judeo-Spanish, the language of Sephardic Jews

Because many Jewish writers wrote in German, Russian, French, and other European languages, what we call "European Jewish literature" overlaps with European literature as a whole.

Considering the role of gender in producing knowledge about Judaism.

Traditional Judaism can--and should--embrace feminism to allow for greater equality in Jewish religious life.