The first time I officiated at a bar mitzvah was when I was the visiting rabbi at a young congregation in ...

Humanity's dominion over the earth must be for the sake of the Divine.

The widespread violence of Nov. 9-10, 1938 signaled an escalation in the Nazi reign of terror.

The origins of Rosh Hashanah Musaf.

The Hebrew month of Elul teaches us that love, like change, requires risk.

Deuteronomy's legal treatment of slavery is more humane than the parallel laws in Exodus, and more practical than those in Leviticus.

Ever since David’s school bus got into an accident last summer, he’s felt jittery, irritable, and easily frightened. He’s having ...

Jewish adventurers were crucial in establishing American civilization on the West Coast.

The Nuremberg trials were the best known, but hardly the only efforts to hold perpetrators accountable.

A quick look at Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist Judaism — and at other Jewish streams.