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

Alicia Jo Rabins is the frontswoman of Girls in Trouble. Their self-titled album was just released on JDub Records, and ...

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

Miriam and Aaron's criticism of Moses, and Miriam's punishment of leprosy teach lessons of sibling and communal responsibility.

A 20th-century philosopher whose Jewish sensibility influenced his encounter with Western thought and ethics.

Synagogues share certain functional interior furnishings, but there is no architectural design or artistic style that characterizes a synagogue.

The Jewish tradition encourages procreation, but some forms of contraception are less problematic than others.

Creating a tallit (prayer shawl) or designing a bar/bat mitzvah invitation can add a meaningful personal dimension to the celebration.

Court Jews were purveyors who provided food, fodder, and munitions to the European courts in return for special privileges.

The uses and abuses of Anne Frank's diary.