Hadar’s “The Devash Jr. Book of Shemot” sends a powerful message: Our children are full members of this tradition, and their ...

That phrase isn’t about trembling at divine thunder. As Martin Buber brilliantly puts it, “fear of God” means deep, ...

Rabbi Elchanan Shoff, the leader of Beis Knesses Los Angeles in Pico-Robertson and a local educator, is known for thinking outside the box when it comes to Torah learning. Whether he is giving a ...

Explore the intricate layers of Jewish history and its connections to the broader narrative of world events and identities.

For years, I believed that serious Torah learning was for other people – the ones who could open a sefer without panic and ...

(RNS) — The book gives daily reflection exercises, drawing on AA's famous 12-step method and portions of Jewish Scripture. (RNS) — At one of the first Alcoholics Anonymous meetings Boruch Binyamin ...

Leviticus gets a bad rap. It lacks the great narratives of the first two books and is full of rules and regulations. Many of these instructions (Lev 1-10) deal with the different types of sacrifices ...

Jewish tradition honors Joseph as Yosef HaTzaddik — Joseph the Righteous One — precisely because of his capacity to change: from a narcissistic youth fantasizing about universal submission, into ...

For Amy Guenther, the shift to Torah observance was swift and unexpected. About a decade ago, one of her friends started creating Facebook posts suggesting that Christians should be keeping the laws ...

The Hebrew Bible’s first word concerns time. That’s why the Rabbis teach us that G^d didn’t only create space and all that’s ...

CINCINNATI — Two years after downsizing the student population on its Clifton Avenue campus, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is again provoking critics by taking steps to sell rare ...