The rabbis of antiquity used prohibitions to shape a Shabbat experience in which creative activity is set aside to make time for matters of the spirit. First of two parts.

My husband is definitively non-Jewish by all religious standards. Except for his latke skills.

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Rabbi Jeremy Stern, who serves as the Executive Director of the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot (ORA) recently penned ...

But they have the best bagels and black and whites!

Before there was Shakespeare, there were some angry rabbis.

Judaism may need new categories of sexual relationships in order to adjust to the reality of sex outside marriage.

God continues describing the Tabernacle to Moses; the people worship the Golden Calf, Moses pleads on their behalf, and God forgives them.

The Jewish denominations choreograph the Mourner's Kaddish in different ways.

Some ways to symbolize a baby girl's entry into the covenant of Judaism.