Torah

The summer months usher in vacations from school and shul. We tend to lose the weekly Torah portions from Shavuot ...

Shavuot has become the Rodney Dangerfield of Jewish holidays.

Rabbis are rabbis in no small part by the work they do, pastoral, ritual, social justice, organizational, all informed by ...

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

Sometimes your soul knows, before your mind, where it needs to go.

Scientists report that playing a game like Rock Band  can make you more caring – and the reason touches the core of what ...

What does it mean to be hero in Judaism, and who to me represents that more than anyone?For me, a hero ...

In my childhood, there were few things that the Orthodox rabbis charged with my daily education and my secular anti-religious ...

Judaism and justice go hand in hand. The Jewish value of tzedakah (charity, from the Hebrew word for “justice”) underscores that ...

Today’s game is a showdown between a veteran and a rookie. Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089-1167) will compete against Nehama Leibowitz (1905-1997).Despite ...