The commandment to leave behind some of the harvest for the poor challenges our assumptions about to whom the food belongs in the first place.

Like a great many others have over these past few days, I have read the incredibly powerful letter written by ...

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

Welcome to Tractate Nedarim.

A stinky fish with a fervent following.

Summer is over and the excitement of my son Jonah’s longest ever stay at sleep-away camp, three weeks, is starting ...

Until last year, my mother did the bulk of the Passover preparations in our family, which of course included tons ...

Wartime exceptions.

How should Jews live under foreign rule? These biblical books offer different answers to a 2,000-year-old question.

A decade of disappointment.