Can I sit shiva for someone I'm not obligated to mourn for?

Exonerating biblical heroes.

Every year costumed women and children arrive from communities across the island, all aglow and abuzz with great anticipation. Purim ...

These writings, which fill in gaps in biblical texts, falls into two categories: halacha and aggadah.

Deciding to become a rabbi is a momentous decision. For a gay man, the decision is even more fraught. In ...

Working the system.

That's so punny.

Do we each have more to learn, things we can do better?

This year on Purim, several minyanim in the U.S. and in Israel will be reading the Megillah with a twist. ...

Only this Jewish woman – this devoted, active, works-in-the Jewish community Jewish woman! – would meet and marry a man named ...