Ancient customs involving a childless widow.

Naming a child can reflect ancestry, associations with the baby's arrival, and hopes and dreams for his or her future.

The specific prohibitions on mourners during the shiva period reflect the mourner's sense of estrangement from the life force.

About Death and Mourning in the Jewish community.

There's more to this classic Ashkenazi comfort food than meets the eye.

A thief and a liar.

Tonight is Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Memorial Day. Last night I was discussing remembrance with my ninth graders at our ...

Welcome to Tractate Gittin.

Could it be that in our yearning for light, we fail to recognize the gifts of darkness?

Jewish law on the proper treatment of prisoners of war