Through mourning the loss of 16-year old Shira Banki z”l, fatally attacked at the 2015 Jerusalem Pride March, the city’s LGBTQ community emerged as a thread to bring together a city divided at the seams. LGBTQ leaders took to Zion Square, the central plaza in the heart of Jerusalem, to hold open forums for unprecedented public discussion in a project called the Meeting Place.

Watch a High Holidays sermon from the spiritual leader of Ohavay Zion Synagogue, Lexington, Kentucky.

With klezmer's popularity on the rise, artists have taken it in new--and sometimes "controversial"--directions.

Laura Thor spoke these words at Transgender Day of Remembrance last year, at a service held at Jefferson Unitarian Church, ...

Jewish tradition embraces love and sex as part of the human drive for holiness.

At the far end of the town of Tiflus, in a small house built upon the foundations of Torah, piety, ...

Several Greek versions of the Purim story survive, along with the biblical text we read today.

Rabbinic restrictions on behavior in the synagogue reveal continuing tension between ordinary Jews' sense of being at home and at ease there, and the desire of rabbis to set it apart as a sacred place.

A midrash on the Sotah ritual emphasizes the lengths to which we go to bring peace between spouses.

The centrality of God in Judaism may not be as straightforward as you think.