Engaging with Torah is like yoga for the mind: It keeps our perspectives flexible and creativity strong.

A coordinated Palestinian terrorist attack and hostage situation in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed.

Instead of casting things into water, let's draw our sins out of the water

Growing up, Passover was always my favorite holiday. Not only did Passover provide me with an eight day vacation from ...

What happens at the Jewish cemetery.

“It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, ...

In Torah times, when someone accidentally killed another person, the victim’s family was allowed to make a revenge killing. The ...

The evolution of attitudes towards physicians, beliefs connecting illness and sin, prayers for healing, and the use of folk healing traditions.

I thought I had entered completely into the world of my novel: Boyle Heights in the 1920s and 30s, when ...

An excerpt from the 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt