Abraham Cahan loved Yiddish, but he was not afraid of change. He urged his readers to be less religious, and to ...

I did not mean to fall in love with the Bintel Brief letters. I grew up Jewish in the New York suburbs ...

When I first read Chaim Potok’s  The Chosen  I wasn’t yet trying to be a writer myself, and was blissfully ...

I have enjoyed a number of rousing conversations with more traditional colleagues about evidence (or lack thereof) of Divine revelation ...

The Torah calls for Jews to work the land six years and let it rest in the seventh.

Rosh Hashanah is coming. I know, because rabbinic colleagues are posting on Facebook about their daily preparation of sermons, and Jewish blogs ...

The home is central to Jewish practice and values.

The Torah commands us to remember the Amalekites.

The evolving relationship between the rabbinic sages and the Jews on the street.

The perfect New York-style bagels have just arrived in the Chicago suburbs.