New crafts for celebrating the birthday of the trees.

People often ask me why I decided to become a rabbi. Some would say in a condescending tone, “You want ...

Although the winter in the Northeast was milder than the past few, I still struggle with the season of cold ...

The ancient rabbis were well aware that control of the calendar was linked to their authority over the Jewish people

This "fifth denomination," founded in the 1960s by a Reform-ordained rabbi, describes itself as humanistic rather than atheistic.

When I lived in San Francisco, I didn’t have much going on in the way of hospitality — mainly because ...

Remembering how we've suffered in the past helps us cultivate gratitude for the blessings we have right now.

Instead of looking up to the heavens for holiness, what if instead we looked to the earth beneath our feet?

April 3, 2015, is Tzom Bechorot, Fast of the Firstborn when first-born Jews fast before the first seder of Passover. This day also ...

This commentary is provided by special arrangement with American Jewish World Service. To learn more, visit www.ajws.org.At one level, the three ...