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The Israelites receive instructions regarding Passover, journey forth from Sinai and complain to God on several occasions.

The prohibition against the direct counting of the Israelites cautions us to remember the human faces behind abstract statistics.

America's largest Jewish denomination, Reform began in 19th-century Germany.

Soviet Jewry Between Wars. World War I and the Jews. Jewish History from 1914 - 1948. Modern Jewish History. Jewish History and Community.

Jewish lifecycle rituals reflect a communal orientation, the democratic nature of traditions, the relationship between the biological and the social, and the inevitability of evolution and change.

A Radio Discussion.

Joseph Caro and Moses Cordovero, icons of Safed mysticism, elaborated on the teachings of the Zohar.

An early group of Jewish mystics conceived of the Hebrew alphabet as the building blocks of creation.

Jewish liturgy encourages spiritual preparation prior to the main section of the morning service.

The Torah reading in most synagogues is inaccessible, the author says, and needs to be "livened up" through the use of drama and performance art.