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How to make Passover beautiful and affordable.

Why this classic work of law, stories and wisdom isn't really about any of those things.

A guide for bar/bat mitzvah guests and other newcomers to Sabbath worship.

Now is the time for the Jewish people to respond to regional and global concerns about water scarcity.

The Bible backed up its exhortations to assist the poor with laws and practices that gave poor people a claim to a share of society’s wealth.

Gangsters, beggars, prostitutes and other inhabitants of Jewish Odessa.