“Mom!” My sixteen year old son, Sage, announced excitedly to me at a Bat Mitzvah party this past weekend, a ...

Get your water boiling.

Jewish moralist literature sets a high standard of truthtelling, but one not without exceptions.

Just go with it.

This haftarah tells the story of the birth of Samuel.

Four prominent Jewish thinkers share jewels of wisdom in preparation for the High Holidays.

Spending Hanukkah in the Deep South is far from my “most remote” holiday experience. In December of 2012, I was ...

The first Torah reading for Simchat Torah

The involvement of God in moral issues gives Jewish ethical thinking a passion and urgency.

Though the Torah commands the appointment of "officers" to uphold the law, Jewish tradition does not recognize crime as a legal category.