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As the Jewish community ages, younger generations face difficult decisions regarding their parents' and grandparents' care.

Jewish families today tend not to conform to the image of two married parents living with their kids.

Adjusting communal structures to match the new realities of the Jewish family will require letting go of a romanticized version of familial reality.

The music of the synagogue celebrates both the diversity and unity of the Jewish people.

An overview of synagogue and religious music, including cantillation, nusah, the nigun, cantors and cantorial music, and the influence of prayer in the synagogue.

Jewish literature offers many insights into the nature of friendship, the rewards it offers, and the efforts one should make to sustain a friendship.

Reconstructionists see Jewish law as no longer viable, but still a resource to be taken seriously.

Orthodox Views on Halakhah. Views on Halakhah. Halakhah in Jewish Daily Life and Practice. Jewish Life.

Seeking guidance from the Jewish legal tradition, without a belief in its binding nature—especially in light of contemporary moral sensitivies.

Jews pray in order to enrich our lives and seek comfort, to connect to the past and to others, to celebrate and develop a sense of the sacred, to serve God and help make ourselves Godlike.

A Renaissance composer who applied the conventions of choral music to Jewish liturgy

With klezmer's popularity on the rise, artists have taken it in new--and sometimes "controversial"--directions.