The test of a community is not how it receives the most powerful, but how it welcomes the most vulnerable.

The economic history of the Jews in Palestine in late antiquity

The school of Shammai constructed its version of the Sabbath laws on the basis of the notion that Shabbat is a foretaste of life in the perfect world, yet to come.

Double condition.

His Judaism, and his dissatisfaction with it, formed the cornerstone of his stories.

The final commandments in the Torah, to gather as a community to hear the Torah and to write down a spiritual legacy, encourage us to re-engage with our core values.

Preparatory customs and practices associated with the day preceding the Day of Atonement.

On Tisha B’Av, Jews mourn the destruction of the Temple. But how much do you know about what it was really like?

The Torah tells us to protect widows--but not all Jewish authorities recommend marrying them.

The most successful Jewish American writer may be the most ambivalent as well.