Ari Alexander is guest blogging (via Blackberry) from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World ...

In last Sunday’s New York Times, Paula Roth (no relation) covers the opening of a new bar in an area ...

Is there anything this Jewish goddess can't do?!

The idea that a person or supernatural being can cause harm with a mere look — and the practices believed to ward it off.

An Italian rabbi, poet and teacher of Kabbalah who claimed to be the Messiah.

Apparently there’s a new crisis in our community–addressing Jews of color.Or at least Jewish communal leaders are creating said crisis.The ...

The other day I had a discussion with a group of girls about their ideal bat mitzvah (the celebration that ...

A recent study at my alma mater, the University of Iowa (go Hawks!), concludes that teenagers who go to church ...

Nearly six years ago, my husband (who was then merely a newish boyfriend in my life) took me out for ...

Fruit trees cannot be destroyed in war, and the Jewish legal tradition takes this to be a paradigm for any act of despoliation.