The book of Esther is not a historical document in the usual sense--but that doesn't undermine its importance as a religious book in the Jewish canon.

Beyond pumpkin spice lattes, Jews have always embraced the pumpkin.

I think that it would be wrong to let the day go by without saying something about the election. But ...

Jewish sources have not, as a general rule, focused attention on the specific personal qualities of the Messiah.

Last week on the blog, S. Bear Bergman of the Flamingo Rampant Book Club issued a call for children’s books that ...

Matthue Roth worked on the set of the new CBS drama The Good Wife as an extra, and first blogged ...