Memories of the film, Yentl, came to mind when a number of highly Jewishly educated women invited me to join ...

Celebrating Nowruz as a model for hope and change.

Rosh Hashanah is the birthday of humankind -- and an annual opportunity to start again.

An overview of Jewish death and mourning practices.

Was it just me, or did this year’s Yom Kippur seem a lot less, well, dire than usual?It started Friday ...

There's a whole world beyond stuffed cabbage!

The answer depends on where you live.

The only Jewish person I knew of growing up was Jesus, and to be honest I had never thought much ...

Michael David Lukas will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning’s Author Blog. His first book, The ...

A talmud brain teaser.