The first thing one must say about this 496-page volume, edited/compiled by Rabbi Yanki Tauber, is that it is absolutely gorgeous. Clearly no expense was spared in the printing, the full-color ...

To many, last month’s brutal attack on a queer nightclub in Colorado Springs, in which five people were killed and 25 were injured, was the logical conclusion of the Right’s increasingly dehumanizing ...

Nikki Schreiber, the “one woman shop” behind the Humans of Judaism Instagram page, had a Snapple fact for me. “Did you know this? That the founders of Snapple were three Jewish guys?” Schreiber asked.

What has the Talmud ever done for us? This is a pertinent question for those generations of Jewish schoolchildren forced to pore over its text to no discernible effect on their later secular lives.

(RNS) — In her debut book, ‘The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic,’ Gila Fine, a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, shows how the women in the Talmud ...

Yonatan Adler posits a convincing thesis, tightly and compellingly argued, that widespread observance of Pentateuchal legislation by Judeans—or what we now call Judaism—emerged no earlier than the ...

Plus ca change …? In his Introduction to the Book of Ezekiel in The Living Nach, Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan (1934-1983) writes the ...

The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roosevelt had to all but promise that if Americans entered ...