You know that moment during havdalah at basically any Jewish communal event? The moment when everyone puts their arms around ...

Jews have wandered the world over, and sometimes all that wandering gets packed into one song.

From Sinai to schism.

In the early Middle Ages, leading scholars across Europe and North Africa produced different genres of legal writings.

Spontaneity and creativity were hallmarks of prayer in the time of the Bible.

Prenuptial marriage protection agreements that accord with halakhah, or Jewish law, can help secure a woman's freedom to remarry in case of a divorce.

A modern phenomenon that draws on basic Hanukkah beliefs.

A curtain or other divider separates men and women while they pray in some synagogues.

The Book of Micah offers a roadmap.

Acceptance versus rejection of the laws governing monthly mikveh visits.