The biblical Book of Lamentations is chanted in a unique style, with each verse beginning in a major mode and ending in its relative minor mode.

The forgotten fat is finding a new home in restaurants.

We in the Jewish community just spent forty-nine days counting the Omer, the period from liberation to revelation, from leaving ...

Learn about and experience Sukkot with these unique classes and workshops from Jewish organizations and synagogues around the world.

Yom Kippur conjures solemnity and foreboding for many Jews. Ritual fasting, abstinence, penitence, and rehearsing for death evolved as core ...

The ultimate Shabbat checklist.

And some helpful alternatives.

I.B. Singer's ghost haunts Jewish literature to this day.

As God promises to accompany Jacob into exile, we learn that sometimes the challenge of being fully present and sharing in someone's pain is greater than relieving their suffering.

Our society is judged on the basis of how we treat our most vulnerable members.