Beyond pumpkin spice lattes, Jews have always embraced the pumpkin.

Although the Bible frowns upon magical healing practices, a clear distinction between medicine and magical healing developed only gradually.

There are more spiritually resonant symbols associated with the Festival of Sukkot than with any other major Jewish holiday. On ...

How one woman, in the middle of her own year of mourning, joined this "holy society" of those who prepare the dead for burial--and what it has meant to her.

This fast commemorates the beginning of the end of the First Temple.

Any person who has visited Israel knows that a stroll through the shuk (Israeli market) is a multi-sense experience: the bright colors, the sweet ...

The author of Kohelet wrestled openly and honestly with life's biggest questions.

Jews' participation in professional boxing in the interwar period is not as surprising as it might seem to be.

Last month I was picking through a pile of books and came across Good for the Jews, by Debra Spark, ...

In the Second Temple period.