These simple words mask a subtle theological statement about the primordial past and the perfected "world to come."

Questions and answers about the ethics of circumcision.

Advertising deals in dissatisfaction, argues one environmental activist. We buy to cure deficiencies that ads mercilessly invent, encouraging us to covet what others have.

A minority in the Jewish state.

Why some Jews ritualize their son's first haircut at age 3.

Taboo in Jewish tradition, but increasingly popular nonetheless.

The selections highlight different aspects of the holiday.

Turning and returning.

Although it may derive from Islamic or pagan culture, the hamsa today has become a Jewish and Israeli symbol.

Jews in the Medieval Islamic Empire