How Karaite laws influence weddings, divorce and ritual purity.

The worst things to say to someone who is grieving.

The Israelites worshipped the Golden Calf because they lost an awareness of God.

A description of the highlights of the Torah, according to the divisions of the weekly portions.

From biblical law, through classic rabbinic debate and medieval law codes, and continuing in the modern period, Jewish law has undergone constant development.

Deuteronomy 20 permits wars of aggression, but the talmudic rabbis made it difficult to declare one.

How can we age like Abraham and Sarah?

A legal code for the Jews of medieval North Africa and Spain.

A famous songwriter whose novels and poems explored Jewish identity and spirituality.

The rabbis of France and Germany created new genres of halakhic literature.