This Torah portion begs the question of whether it’s acceptable to use coercive power to have people to do something that’s good for them.

No biblical book takes up theodicy's challenge with greater power than the moving and enigmatic story of Job.

One of the conversations that I had early in rabbinic school about how we connect to the wisdom of Torah ...

"Latter-day Deborah" challenged the traditional role of Jewish women.

Judah Cohen serves as The Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and as an Assistant Professor of Jewish ...

Eicha is both the Hebrew title of this biblical book and the word that best helps us understand what it really means.

On Purim, we get a flavor of a redeemed world — and it is intoxicating.

Contemporary Jewish feminism has made its impact on all of the major denominations of Jewish life.

In his last blogs, Charles London talked about a collected Jewish museum and the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda.The ancient Israelites ...

A special request for life-sustaining dew is traditionally recited on the first morning of Passover.