“Some people will do anything to get out of synagogue on Simchat Torah” said my husband as we headed off ...

She started as a skinny kid in Brooklyn and built a James Beard award-winning cookbook empire.

On Monday, Ruth Franklin wrote about sharing a stage with Yann Martel. She is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: ...

With the recent violence and escalation in the Middle East, my mind is on Israel. With every report of a ...

On Shabbat, the 2nd of Av, about a week before Jews across the world fasted to mourn the destruction of ...

Visiting with those in dire need, God's presence never felt more present — or absent.

Why Israelis have just one seder, how Gibraltar does haroset and other curiosities of this 8-day holiday.

"Freedom to observe, freedom to neglect," in the words of one 19th-century rabbi

Medieval Jewish-Christian disputations.

I know it’s kind of weird to have a favorite fast day, but I do. Tzom Gedaliah, I kind of ...