When tradition is silent, symbolic explanations arise.

How Adler uses feminist ideas to challenge Jewish law.

Earlier this week, Melissa Fay Greene wrote about the adoption of her daughter, Helen, from Ethiopia, and telling jokes at ...

Consumption of adult materials may run afoul of several principles in Jewish law.

People-to-people peace-building works.It’s been researched and documented, in Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and many other places. Without people-to-people peace-building on a ...

Two trans rabbinical students sit down for a conversation about Jewish and trans identity.

The Jewish position on abortion is nuanced, neither condoning it nor categorically prohibiting it.

The seventh leader of the Chabad Hasidic sect built a global outreach movement.

Differences between the movements grow out of more basic disagreements in philosophy and belief.

I woke up Wednesday morning with a new bounce in my step. Today was the day I was going to ...