Parashat Terumah lays out a list of regulations for spiritual development.

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The test of a community is not how it receives the most powerful, but how it welcomes the most vulnerable.

This morning, I blogged about the poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali and his translator, Peter Cole. In July, I wrote ...

Are there stories in the Jewish canon that shed light on how to reckon with evil without losing one's moral foundation?

I ask this question often, in one form or another. And often, people answer with a cynical “No.”A business leader ...

Lethal force.

As commonly understood, this biblical narrative condemns the first violation of the prohibition against idolatry--but it's not that simple.

New, more fanatical Muslim rulers caused the quality of Jewish life in North Africa and Egypt to deteriorate during the 12th and 13th centuries.

Not long ago, a friend of mine posted an excellently snarky commentary about a new television show called, Married at ...