A rabbi offers advice about how to perform the mitzvah of visiting the sick with wisdom, discretion, and sensitivity.

Jews and Judaism have influenced--and have been influenced by--modern anthropological inquiry.

Fruit trees cannot be destroyed in war, and the Jewish legal tradition takes this to be a paradigm for any act of despoliation.

A review of the Jewish satirist's long career in fiction.

The best jokes about beggars and moochers.

This Israeli songwriter is famous for lyrics of such songs as "Jerusalem of Gold" and "Lu Yehi"

They struggled to reconcile the words of earlier prophets.

His life and work.

In September 2000, a new wave of violence erupted.

One of the most significant figures in the history of philosophy, Spinoza was excommunicated by the Jewish community.