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Bahya Ibn Pakudah

11th-century Spanish philosopher best known for Duties of the Heart, an attempt to organize Jewish ethical teachings into a cohesive system.

Biblical commentator looked at Torah in both traditional and kabbalistic ways.

While the offense was once punishable by death, Jews do not enforce the rules anymore.

I was walking by a New York City store, when I saw something curious in the window. They looked like ...

Israel experienced an earthquake last Friday, registering at 5.3 on the Richter Scale. What caused this earthquake? Whatever you do, ...

-Fatah is implementing â€œunprecedented internal reforms to democratize the ailing movement in the face of the electoral threat from political ...

While Jewish tradition does not make a big deal of birthdays, there is no problem with celebrating them.

The first human beings are banished by God.

More and more Orthodox women are exploring the boundaries of their participation in communal Jewish prayer. An Israeli couple has ...

Maimonides reconciled views of the Greek philosopher with Judaism.

Jewish bioethicists, across the denominational spectrum, tend to consider that cessation of breathing (which is connected to brain stem activity) ...

Holocaust humor is a very sensitive topic, rightfully so. Many people are appalled by its existence, and this is a ...