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The Karaites, biblical fundamentalists, challenged the authority of rabbinic Judaism.

The history of Kabbalah in Medieval Spain.

The rabbinic sages taught that humans should emulate God by meeting the particular needs of people in trouble. But how should one go about that today?

Agriculture plays a huge role in Israel's society.

Most rabbis permit artificial insemination using the husband's semen, but donor insemination raises more complicated questions.

Service is compulsory for most Jewish Israelis.

An unequal partnership?

The ceremony of the "redemption" of the first-born son.

Behind these biblical practices is a vision of how politics, economics, and relations to the environment should be structured that makes manifest spiritual concerns as well.

Jewish texts on social justice describe the tension between providing what is needed and providing what is affordable.