Eicha is both the Hebrew title of this biblical book and the word that best helps us understand what it really means.

How do we make sense of the census commanded in this Torah portion, which specifies only men be counted?

The Passover debate surrounding rice, millet, corn and legumes.

A master Torah commentator who foreshadowed biblical criticism

Jewish-American fiction's favorite troublemaker.

Judah Cohen serves as The Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and as an Assistant Professor of Jewish ...

For many Jews, the Torah's authority does not derive from being a divine document.

Lessons learned from the assassination

There are two funny images I like to circulate this time every year as we approach the Passover holiday. The ...

The Jews accepted the Torah with the statement "naaseh v'nishma" -- we will do and we will hear.