Your Yom Kippur questions answered

Judaism places a high value on passing stories from generation to generation. Here’s how to get the most out of your conversations with your parents and grandparents.

According to the National Jewish Population Survey, there are approximately 1.5 million non-Jews helping to raise Jewish families in the ...

It was a sunny winter day in Boca Raton, Florida. My mother and I approached the home where local history ...

Helping 13-year-olds understand a 3,000-year-old text is challenging, to say the least.After all, trying to glean lessons from the Torah ...

in jail?David Brooks, notorious for spending more than $10 million on his daughter’s bat mitzvah two years ago, was arrested ...

Once taboo, "marrying out" is now commonplace and — outside Orthodoxy — widely accepted.

With help from a modern Jacob

This past weekend I went to a family bat mitzvah in the DC area. It was an intense weekend, full ...

The rabbinic sages and later philosophers and mystics offered many ways to categorize the mitzvot and explain their significance.