The woman who created the American-style Hebrew school demonstrated that one could be fully Jewish and fully American.

Today marks the end of the most prolific counting of days in the Jewish calendar. S’firat ha’Omer, the Counting of ...

At shiva, the mourner gets to decide whether or not to initiate conversation.

He could kill a lion or topple a temple with his bare hands, but succumbed to the love of a treacherous woman. Many wild traditions circulated about the first Jewish superhero.

Not everyone admired Singer's fiction.

Miriam and Aaron's criticism of Moses, and Miriam's punishment of leprosy teach lessons of sibling and communal responsibility.

A Torah teaching for the Western environmentalist.

1970s & '80s stand-up & sketch comedy: Seinfeld's start, Andy Kaufman, Saturday Night Live

A 20th-century philosopher whose Jewish sensibility influenced his encounter with Western thought and ethics.

A chronological outline of Jewish views of lesbianism from biblical to modern times.