The fourth and fifth mishnayot of Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 begin a series of teachings about ethical socializing — and ...

The doors wouldn’t close on him.

In America, a female sweatshop worker from a Polish shtetl could become a renowned writer and Hollywood commodity.

Jewish tradition takes it for granted that war is an inevitable part of human existence.

The first rabbi.

"Tradition and change" is the Conservative movement's motto, balancing adherence to Jewish law with a willingness to introduce major innovations.

The rabbinic sages and later philosophers and mystics offered many ways to categorize the mitzvot and explain their significance.

Woe to you.

A contemporary form of Judaism that focuses on our relationship with the environment and expands the focus of Tu Bishvat.

Having, in many ways, healed past victimhood, North American Jews live in relative comfort, able to offer aid to less ...