Achieving Shalom

Commonly defined as peace, hello and goodbye, Shalom cannot simply be translated and then understood by its English description. In ...

Morbid Jews

The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...

Israeli Food

Israelis have developed and continue to enjoy a delicious cuisine rooted in the uniqueness of Israeli society itself.

Reading Torah in Korea With A Chopstick

Judaism takes on familiar and new forms on the Korean peninsula

Taking the Bat out of Batman

“The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary.”–Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes.In the up coming, and probably ...

Rabbinic Abuse

Do alleged perpetrators of abuse deserve the benefit of the doubt?

Interfaith Families

With intermarriage an acknowledged part of the American landscape, the only remaining debate is how to respond to interfaith unions.

Jewish Ritual Objects: A Guide

From challah covers to yahrzeit candles, what they are used for, how they look and where you can find them.

The Shulchan Aruch

This 16th-century text by Joseph Caro is the ultimate code of Jewish law.

Metzora

Leviticus 14:1-15:33