The classic example of Jewish ethics vs. “the law of the Torah” is the story of Shimon ben Shetach in the Palestinian Talmud Baba Metzia 2:5. Simeon ben Shetach, circa 140-60 BCE, was a Pharisee ...

Rabbi Bruce D. Forman says “may this year’s Thanksgiving table be a place where we feel not pressure to be grateful, but ...

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At this time of the year, the portions we read from the Torah center on the uniqueness of the Israelites by emphasizing God’s hopes for them and reiterating the specific practices they have been ...

American business, when confronted with evidence of anti-Jewish discrimination in its ranks, is visibly taking steps to rid itself of such practices, Morris B. Abram. president of the American Jewish ...

(JTA) — “What the son wishes to forget the grandson wishes to remember.” That’s known as Hansen’s Law, named for the historian Marcus Lee Hansen, who observed that while the children of immigrants ...

Radiant Practices: Illuminating Jewish Traditions traces the foundational role of light in Jewish life and ritual, both historically and today. Journey through a collection of Jewish ritual objects, ...

(RNS) — In a scene from a recently released movie, three older women in a small room slowly walk clockwise around a table covered in candles, chanting curses softly. A scene from the latest “Macbeth” ...

The president of Stanford University, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, apologized Wednesday after a campus task force found that the university strictly limited the admission of Jewish students in the 1950s.

Jacob Feldon needs a deer hide. He’s been working with an area hunter to get it, with hopes of thinning it into parchment. Feldon, an incoming senior at Logan High School, also will need handmade ink, ...

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Theologian Edward Kessler, in his 2005 book A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, defines Messianic Judaism as a religious movement consisting of both Jews and non-Jews who follow traditional ...