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It's not an oxymoron: Secular Jewish Israelis value a variety of Jewish religious practices.

The sons of Reuben and Gad have promised Moses that they will help the other tribes settle the Promised Land before settling across the River Jordan.

Israeli Bedouin have an ambiguous relationship with the state.

In Jewish sources, the ideal Jewish society will be situated in Israel and ushered in by catastrophic events.

Early Zionist thinkers envisioned, in great detail, the perfect human--and Jewish--society.

Four texts dealing with non-traditional forms of insemination may--or may not--serve as meaningful precedents for the contemporary debate.

The architect of American Reform Judaism

Believe it or not, Israelis need Jewish education.

Israel's legal system provides for freedom for all religious groups.

From his day until the present, Rashi has been the most beloved of all medieval teachers.

Judaism recognizes the primacy of an inner beauty, but we are nonetheless called upon to care for our bodies and not discouraged from tending to our appearance.

This major 20th-century Jewish thinker saw vegetarianism as the biblical ideal to which humankind should work to return.