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How much do you know about bible characters?

Jews in Medieval Christendom. Jewish History from 632 - 1650. Medieval Jewish History. Jews in the Middle Ages.

A description of the highlights of the Torah, according to the divisions of the weekly portions.

The ancient rabbinic sages did not see degradation of the natural environment as a systemic problem: but we can learn from their legislation addressing the more local environmental issues of which they were aware.

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

The biblical shemitah represents an alternative to the consumer society.

Aware as we may be of the importance of visiting and assisting people who are ill, we still have to overcome our fears and hesitations in order to perform this mitzvah.

A Talmudic legal parable illustrates that, although they may have improved the natural world, humans do not own it. We may transcend nature, but we are also part of it.

To the Israelite prophets, humans are central to the relationship of God and the created world...

From chants to niggunim.

The social and intellectual changes brought about by the advent of the printing press.

Powerful passages in the Book of Job teach that the world, and the animals in particular, must not be abused or exploited by human beings.