We should strive to emulate Abraham and Isaac rather than emulating Laban, who compartmentalized his values.

After the wedding, bride and groom retreat to a seclusion room, rejoin their guests for a festive meal, and then celebrate with friends and family for the next seven days.

A Sephardic Jew records his impressions of the city and its Jewish leadership in the 12th century.

Passover and Shavuot are part of one spiritual journey.

We must be cleansed from the polluting effects of sin.

Jewish pride--and shame--on stage.

This prophet was a great interpreter of dreams.

A convert must step gingerly across a minefield of long-held expectations, sometimes complicated by ambivalence toward Jewishness.

Jumping through hoops may look easy to this observant couple who sought an Orthodox conversion in Israel.

An introduction to Jewish attitudes toward life support, ceasing medical care, living wills, and caring for patients in their final days