To snip or not to snip? That, apparently, is becoming a major question for some 21st-century American Jews.I have to ...

The People of the Book on the Emerald Isle.

The duty of the Levites to accompany the Tabernacle service with music and song reminds us to serve God with joy.

The Bible's most erotic book has long been understood as a metaphor.

 Becky hasn’t been herself lately. She started drinking a year ago, but now she’s experimenting with other drugs—and her friends ...

Joseph's tears, public and private

The laws of vows and the rabbinic cautions against making them teach the holiness and power of the spoken word.

It all begins with how we treat animals.

Nathan Zuckerman's last act.

How modern scholars explain the origins and authorship of Judaism's foundational text.