This Passover, Jews sit at the Seder table amid sirens, reflecting on freedom, oppression, and existential threats in today’s ...

How do we go from redemption to revelation? What happens in the days and weeks following our experience of liberation to prepare us for the gift of Torah? Every year, the Jewish tradition invites us ...

New people around our “table” push us away from moral and spiritual complacency, writes an educator at the Shalom Hartman ...

Rabbi Amnon Bazak’s second volume on the biblical book of Samuel is superb, far better than the many classical commentators ...

Passover, a major Jewish holiday celebrated by millions around the world, begins this week. In the U.S., you may see families ...

Dark matter and dark energy are mysteries that have confounded scientists for decades, even though they comprise 95% of the ...

When analyzing the oldest books of the Bible, scholars have identified the work of various writers and editors. But how did ...

Witnessing the birth of a cow and then watching her butchered for meat years later changed this rabbi’s relationship to ...

Under the law, rabbinical courts may act as arbitrators only with the consent of all parties. A law that will expand the ...

There is one teaching in particular that is repeated more than any other through these first five books of the Hebrew Bible — ...

( JTA) — A California lawmaker is introducing a bill that would create a buffer zone around houses of worship, the latest ...