The first Torah reading for Simchat Torah

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What you should know before you're called to the Torah.

A Southern Jewish Historian weighs in on the recent Marvelous plotline

In contemporary parlance, tikkun olam refers to repairing the earthly world in which we live but in Luria's teachings, complete tikkun would undo the world we know.

How Karaite laws influence weddings, divorce and ritual purity.

To the Israelite prophets, humans are central to the relationship of God and the created world...

Deuteronomy 20 permits wars of aggression, but the talmudic rabbis made it difficult to declare one.

The worst things to say to someone who is grieving.

Immersion in the mikveh actualizes the transition between the convert's old identity and his or her new one as a Jew.