How one woman, in the middle of her own year of mourning, joined this "holy society" of those who prepare the dead for burial--and what it has meant to her.

The remarkable parallels in the stories of Josephus' and Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai's surrenders to the Romans reveal more about Jewish memory than Jewish history.

Capital punishment: allowed in the Torah and Talmud, but rarely carried out by Jewish courts.

Jews fleeing the Nazis had difficulty finding countries that would take them in.

Ever since David’s school bus got into an accident last summer, he’s felt jittery, irritable, and easily frightened. He’s having ...

A compilation of aggadic (narrative) and halachic (legal) midrash

Jacob and Rebecca teach us that we can alter our fates and achieve greatness.

Bringing Eastern European Jews to the American West.

The existential threat of Amalek.

The oldest Jewish community in Europe traces its history back more than 2,300 years.