Rachel and Leah's complex relationship allows us to imagine new possibilities for strengthening our own relationships.

Jews read sections of the Torah each week, and these sections, known as parshiyot, inspire endless examination year after year. ...

The author proposes that only an active program that combines inreach to "faithless" Jews and outreach to unchurched spiritual seekers can revitalize the Jewish community.

There's so much more than bagels and smoked fish!

Joseph's status as an outsider, and the outsider status of the Jewish people, allow for critical insight into the deeper truths of the surrounding people.

Fight for it.

Originally bar mitzvah meant simply "coming of age." The ceremony developed much later.

Only a few days ago I finished saying Kaddish, and today was the day my mother would have turned 56. ...

A way to infuse this Rosh Hashanah ritual with extra meaning.

Have you heard about The Hester? Operating out of the Ditmas Park, Brooklyn home of Itta Werdiger Roth and her husband, ...