Study
Music and Jewish Prayer
Music in Jewish worship can be high art or popular song, by solo expression or with group participation.
Contemporary Jews and Halakhah
Jews of different stripes differ greatly with respect to their assessment of the role Jewish law should play today—and each camp has much to learn from the others.
The Way of the Gentiles
The prohibition against non-Jewish practices, might relate to the practices of ancient Egypt, Canaan or the social and philosophical ways of non-Jews today.
Mendele Mokher Seforim
The writing of Mendele Mokher Seforim offers a realistic and honest portrayal of village life.
How to Be a Host, How to Be a Guest
Jewish ethical literature provides practical, down-to-earth guidelines on how to behave towards one's guests and towards one's hosts.
What’s Wrong with Adultery?
The problem with marital infidelity is the loss of the relaxed intimacy that lets us be ourselves.
I and Thou: Selected Passages
When a person encounters another person in total immediacy, he or she may also experience a glimpse of God.
Halakhah in Conservative Judaism
"Tradition and change" is the Conservative movement's motto, balancing adherence to Jewish law with a willingness to introduce major innovations.
The Body: Themes & Theology
Themes and Theology of the Jewish Body. The Jewish Body. Jewish Body Traditions.
Biblical and Rabbinic Attitudes Toward Non-Jews
Early Jewish texts affirmed the universal fraternity of humankind, while asserting the importance of Jewish distinctiveness.
