Does giving money for research count as charity?

From Prohibition to Precedent.

Double condition.

A changing organization for a changing student body.

Jews of different stripes differ greatly with respect to their assessment of the role Jewish law should play today—and each camp has much to learn from the others.

Everything you need to know about kindling the Sabbath lights.

A Conservative responsum explores the Jewish issues involved.

For one Hasidic master, Shabbat is not the weekend, but the sacred center of the week, which illuminates the days before and after.

Fruit trees cannot be destroyed in war, and the Jewish legal tradition takes this to be a paradigm for any act of despoliation.

Isaiah's greatness lies not only in his ethical teachings, but in his central involvement — and prophetic intervention — in the political events of his day.