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A Vegetarian Shankbone

How the beet ended up on the seder plate

Parashat Shoftim: Building a Just Society

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as  parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

Mechitzah: Separate Seating in the Synagogue

A curtain or other divider separates men and women while they pray in some synagogues.

Portable Holiness

Holiness derives from encounters with God in Torah study; it is not intrinsic to locations like Mount Sinai.

Mitzvot: Contemporary Thought

On history, spirituality, obligation, and standing at Sinai.

Philip Roth: Selected Works

Jewish-American fiction's favorite troublemaker.

A Jewish Bookseller’s View

Booksellers View of Jewish Texts. What Makes a Text Jewish. What are Jewish Texts. About Jewish Texts. Jewish Texts. People of the Book.

Interview (and a free JDub album!) with Wailing Wall

Today, JDub Records releases their first-ever free debut album — Wailing Wall’s debut record, Hospital Blossoms. Follow that link to ...

Green Jews

Jews need to put environmental issues higher on their agenda, the author argues.

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