The test of a community is not how it receives the most powerful, but how it welcomes the most vulnerable.

This morning, I blogged about the poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali and his translator, Peter Cole. In July, I wrote ...

The details of this ill-fated effort to create a two-state solution for Jews and Palestinians.

Often misunderstood, autism spectrum disorder encompasses a wide range of behaviors and personalities—it can also give a person some unique strengths. Here’s what it really means to have autism.

If there’s a lightbulb out or some Ikea furniture to put together, we ask my dad to do it. If ...

Talmudic brain surgery.

The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy is everywhere. I saw a woman reading it the subway last week and another ...

Playing with fire.

Jews fleeing the Nazis had difficulty finding countries that would take them in.

For Jewish religious thinkers in our time, the question "why observe mitzvot?" has become a central and critical concern. Some answers echo earlier periods, some are new.