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The namesake for the Conservative day school network was a key scholar who became president of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

Jewish historiography frequently uses the history of texts as the periodization for Jewish history.

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.