Wartime exceptions.

Why does the holiest day of the Jewish year begin with a dry legal formula renouncing vows?

Celebrating Purim amid the mishegos of life.

The complex ways in which parents serve as our bridge between God and the world.

While some stars look Jewish or publicly identify as Jewish, supporting Israel—you go, Scar Jo!— or record Chanukah songs that ...

“Even if the messiah tarries, nonetheless, I believe and wait for him, but peace with Iran? Impossible.” When I asked ...

Mel Brooks' humor springs from Jews' outsider status and history of persecution.

Whether we like it or not, what we ate growing up shapes us one way or another. While some take ...

Foundational Jewish historian and non-Zionist nationalist.

There’s not a “look” to Jewish, you just are. This is what I was raised to believe in the Jewish ...