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Selling the tools of violence to people prone to violence violates the biblical prohibition of "setting a stumbling block before the blind."

Insider trading--using privileged knowledge for profit in the stock market--violates many Jewish principles.

Two scholars question the contemporary relevance of the still- young American Jewish denominations.

Finding new meaning in tree planting

Why don't we say a blessing before we do a good deed?

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.

On attending to mourners, anticipating dying, accepting death, and appropriate burial rites.

Events in the "calendar" of the lifecycle are private, yet connect us to the "unseen presences" of missing family members and our entire people throughout history.

Modern Jewish denominations emerge over time.

Modernization and its discontents.

Jewish feminists imagine and address God in a multiplicity of ways, both innovative and traditional.

A review of the Jewish satirist's long career in fiction.