One of the fascinating things about the Bible, especially the book of Genesis, is the way that family dynamics play ...

The message to the one who is circumcised: The covenant involves pain and sacrifice as well as honor and sanctity. And it is part of who you are, branded into your flesh at birth.

Last week marked the 15th yahrzeit of Mordecai Ardon, arguably Israel’s greatest painter. This week, MJL features an article about ...

When we embrace with one hand but push away with the other, it's the push that remains in lasting memory.

Meet the Samaritans.

Explaining this ancient song about a 'woman of valor'

I’ve thought a lot about Isaac Babel’s lovely characterization of the Jew as a man with “[s]pectacles on his nose and ...

Celebrating menopause breaks the silences of a lifetime and forges a future of openness and sharing.

More than two millennia ago, it was not the action of one man that changed the course of Jewish history, but rather his inaction.

A Renaissance composer who applied the conventions of choral music to Jewish liturgy