Why does the mezuzah go on a diagonal?

Beta Israel women in Ethiopian villages were inactive in public and were in charge of the domestic sphere.

This 16th-century text by Joseph Caro is the ultimate code of Jewish law.

One strike and you're out.

Rabbinic commentators interpreted the law of leaving the corners of one's field for those in need in light of their own concerns about the poor.

The chevra kadisha is a group of committed Jews who prepare the body for burial.

Unable to see beyond their own fears and insecurities, 10 of the 12 spies despaired of conquering Canaan.

The famed red heifer is a key part of a biblical purification process. But why do we need laws to create a system of purity and impurity in the first place?

In Judaism, peace is not merely the opposite of war, but denotes an ideal state of affairs.

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.