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Guest blogger Simcha Weinstein is the rabbi of the Pratt Institute. His latest book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the ...

Debate about this biblical story raises key theological issues.

The details for scheduling traditional Jewish nuptials.

How emancipation, nationalism, capitalism and liberalism affected the Jews.

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Torah — one scroll or five?

The incredible journey of bolas de Berlim.

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The evolution of attitudes towards physicians, beliefs connecting illness and sin, prayers for healing, and the use of folk healing traditions.