This speech honoring the deceased is an important ancient Jewish custom.

Needling capitalism in America.

A historical perspective of American Jewish allegiance.

In a disorderly, violent time, as Israel fought for land and survival, Deborah was called--and stepped forward--to aid her people.

Samuel Heilman serves as a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York and ...

Ruth offers a counter-narrative to the top-down model of divine revelation

This article was written for the 2009 Why Be Jewish Gathering: Renaissance in a Time of Ration, a project of ...

How this genre gleans deep meaning from the Torah's text

Jewish mystics took Judaism's reverence for the Hebrew language one step further, venerating the Hebrew letters themselves and considering them paths to the Divine.

The man who penned landmark works on Jewish law and philosophy also deeply identified with the communities and individuals who sought his counsel.