A pungent flavor addition to a traditional holiday staple.

Synagogues share certain functional interior furnishings, but there is no architectural design or artistic style that characterizes a synagogue.

Ruth offers a counter-narrative to the top-down model of divine revelation

Like Moses and Caleb, we make progress in fits and starts.

Signed by Israeli Prime Minister Natanyahu and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in 1998.

Sex workers--like Tamar--are fueled by cycles of sexism and poverty.

These three prophets are principally concerned with the status of the Temple, the new religious hierarchy, and the religious obligations of the post-exilic community.

Navigating the 12 months of the Hebrew calendar.

For many Jews, the Torah's authority does not derive from being a divine document.

The reference to forgetting Joseph raises questions about how oppression is linked to a group's commitment to the larger society.