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A step-by-step guide to the ritual for ridding one’s home of leavened foods before Passover.

This too is for the good.

If a baby is circumcised by a doctor, does that count as a Jewish circumcision?

Brooding over a psalmist's question in the face of death.

Animals before the flood.

Gehazi’s story.

Why do Hebrew names sometimes invoke a person's father and at others their mother?

This rare occurrence mandates a number of adjustments to pre-holiday rituals.

This week’s Torah portion opens the third book of the Torah, with which it shares a name: Vayikra. In a sefer Torah, ...

The cedar or the reed.