The speech that farmers recited when bringing their first fruits to the Temple articulates the Zionist message.

The author proposes that only an active program that combines inreach to "faithless" Jews and outreach to unchurched spiritual seekers can revitalize the Jewish community.

These talented people represent an array of Jewish experience and racial/ethnic identity.

Commentaries on the Haggadah contrast the evil of Laban with Pharaoh and see Laban as a symbol for political, sociological, and psychological evil.

Song of Songs is an erotic poem that compares young love to gazelles frolicking in the field. So why is it read on the holiday of liberation?

Rabbinic interpretations and discussions of the Bible.

On Tisha B’Av, Jews mourn the destruction of the Temple. But how much do you know about what it was really like?

What Jewish mourners can expect at each stage of the bereavement process.

The ancients disagreed about the reasons Jews celebrate the eight day Festival of Light.

Ancient and modern readings of the Bible and Talmud suggest that several personalities may have defied gender and sexuality norms.