This portion calls on us to make clean water a focal point of our action and advocacy.

Because asking for forgiveness is a holy act.

We must be cleansed from the polluting effects of sin.

Beta Israel women in Ethiopian villages were inactive in public and were in charge of the domestic sphere.

On Tisha B’Av, Jews mourn the destruction of the Temple. But how much do you know about what it was really like?

One strike and you're out.

This 16th-century text by Joseph Caro is the ultimate code of Jewish law.

Rabbinic commentators interpreted the law of leaving the corners of one's field for those in need in light of their own concerns about the poor.

A Jewish ritual cleansing of the deceased fulfills the verse from Ecclesiastes 5:14, "As we come forth, so we shall return."

This week’s Torah portion opens the third book of the Torah, with which it shares a name: Vayikra. In a sefer Torah, ...