The popular holiday isn't mentioned in the Bible and is barely addressed in the Talmud.

Here’s a lesson for Jewish kids I came across this December — which is a pretty good lesson for adults, ...

Do walls make us secure or vulnerable?

Bourekas de kalavasa or "pumpkin turnovers" are the perfect Sephardic dish for fall.

Thousands of notes are placed in the wall each year. What happens to all that paper?

Seriously, somebody should just come out with a top-50 list of Jewish top-50 lists. This year’s Forward 50 was just ...

“May you be Written in the Book of Life” is such a nice phrase to utter at this time of ...

The order of the Mishnah that describes the customs, laws, and rituals of Judaism's holy days

Images of horror, most pointedly the public beheadings of two American journalists in a matter of weeks, have ensured that ...

Yom Kippur conjures solemnity and foreboding for many Jews. Ritual fasting, abstinence, penitence, and rehearsing for death evolved as core ...