He could kill a lion or topple a temple with his bare hands, but succumbed to the love of a treacherous woman. Many wild traditions circulated about the first Jewish superhero.

At shiva, the mourner gets to decide whether or not to initiate conversation.

All about the movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel.

In connecting the two, the Torah makes Shabbat a symbol of compassion and humane treatment for those in need of liberation.

The Israeli presidency is largely a ceremonial role.

How one woman, in the middle of her own year of mourning, joined this "holy society" of those who prepare the dead for burial--and what it has meant to her.

Jewish women in the Diaspora.

Messianism in Chabad-Lubavitch challenges Jews of all denominations to consider the limits of Jewish theology.

Service is compulsory for most Jewish Israelis.

Traditional Jewish words of consolation.