What’s “new” for this historian? Well, at the moment, we are in the process of updating the Mississippi entries for ...

Maimonides, popularly known as Rambam, was born on March 30, 1135. Maimonides is best known as a philosopher, prolific author and jurist: ...

The author shares the process of using Jewish texts and customs to celebrate a new stage of life.

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.

Today I become an adult rabbi.This June marks my 13th year since ordination as a rabbi, and my 13th year ...