What Jewish tradition says about cats, dogs and other companion animals.

Maimonides' extensive writings on Jewish law, or halachah, remain an unsurpassed accomplishment.

Jonathan Safran Foer's 9/11 novel explores the dialectic between absence and presence.

Modern-day plagues are occurring with greatly increasing frequency around the world.

A remarkable discovery with eternal repercussions

Rabbi Akiva argued that the Song of Songs "defiled the hands" — which meant it was sacred. In fact, he argued it was the most sacred book of the Bible.

The philosophers of the Middle Ages believed they were unearthing existing wisdom, not creating new ideas.

In contemporary Jewish thought.

Jews of different stripes differ greatly with respect to their assessment of the role Jewish law should play today—and each camp has much to learn from the others.

While the early Reform movement presented selected universal, liberal moral teachings as the core of Judaism, the contemporary Reform movement is rediscovering many particularistic Jewish practices.