Lavie Tidhar’s new novel An Occupation of Angels is available this week. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish ...

The Torah reading in most synagogues is inaccessible, the author says, and needs to be "livened up" through the use of drama and performance art.

With klezmer's popularity on the rise, artists have taken it in new--and sometimes "controversial"--directions.

Liberal politics in Israeli movies of the 1980s and '90s.

The first book of the Torah tells of the origins of the world and of the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy's legal treatment of slavery is more humane than the parallel laws in Exodus, and more practical than those in Leviticus.

The controversial Book of Ezekiel nearly didn't make it into the biblical canon, but it has had a lasting impact on both liturgical practice and mystical traditions.

Several Greek versions of the Purim story survive, along with the biblical text we read today.

Secular humanistic parents and educators face unique challenges in speaking to kids about God.

Immersion in the mikveh actualizes the transition between the convert's old identity and his or her new one as a Jew.