When lives are at stake, Judaism permits--and probably requires--fighting.

To the Israelite prophets, humans are central to the relationship of God and the created world...

In the Second Temple period.

King David's wife and King Solomon's mother came on the scene because of David's wandering gaze.

A Torah teaching for the Western environmentalist.

The worst things to say to someone who is grieving.

The Israelites worshipped the Golden Calf because they lost an awareness of God.

Immersion in the mikveh actualizes the transition between the convert's old identity and his or her new one as a Jew.

How Karaite laws influence weddings, divorce and ritual purity.

Deuteronomy 20 permits wars of aggression, but the talmudic rabbis made it difficult to declare one.