Jewish Law

Mr. Prime Minister, Tear Down This Wall!

In June 1975, I was getting ready to leave Israel after a year of study. I bumped into a friend ...

An Orthodox rabbinic colleague Rabbi Zev Farber recently posted on Morethodoxy a piece on the experience of place women have ...

A few weeks before I began rabbinical school, I took a vacation and went to visit my in-laws where they ...

It is very hard after the seder to get excited about the last days of Passover. Seven/eight days of eating ...

Those of us who fall under the general rubric of “believers” may feel a sense of God’s presence in our ...

And Moses read the Book of the Covenant to the people and they said “All that God has commanded we ...

My daughter sings in the choir at her Jewish high school. Only her mother can attend the annual concert. I ...

Yizkor is part of an ongoing conversation with the dead, but what we don't realize is that we constantly converse with the dead in daily life.

After burial Jewish law requires the mourner to turn from despair in the face of death to the affirmation of life.

The specific prohibitions on mourners during the shiva period reflect the mourner's sense of estrangement from the life force.

In recent centuries, Jewish law has developed tools for regulating the rights to intellectual property.

How traditional Jewish women prepare for monthly mikveh use.