Visual arts in Israel predate the country's independence yet play a defining role in the country's identity as a nation.

My heart began pounding.Faster and faster and faster.“How can this be happening?” I asked myself, tears about to pour over ...

This once small Hasidic group has grown to unparalleled global influence.

Through mourning the loss of 16-year old Shira Banki z”l, fatally attacked at the 2015 Jerusalem Pride March, the city’s LGBTQ community emerged as a thread to bring together a city divided at the seams. LGBTQ leaders took to Zion Square, the central plaza in the heart of Jerusalem, to hold open forums for unprecedented public discussion in a project called the Meeting Place.

The ancients disagreed about the reasons Jews celebrate the eight day Festival of Light.

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. Each ...

These Education Fellows will never forget their time in the Deep South

Matthue Roth worked on the set of the new CBS drama The Good Wife as an extra, and first blogged ...

What holiness meant to the sages of the Talmud.

I recently had the opportunity to interview poet and educator Merle Feld, author of A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart ...