The Talmud treats the law as a given; its agenda is to see how the different understandings of that law relate to each other.

"Unitive" and "restorative" impulses propel the religious life of the Jewish mystic.

Jelly donut ice cream! Cholent mix! All the cream cheese!

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

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.

The renewal of the yearly cycle of Torah readings invites us to reconsider our foundational stories anew.

Over the summer, Larry, the organizer of the minyan that I attend for Rosh Hashanah, sent out an email asking ...

Lessons learned from the assassination

A summary of the first portion of the Torah.