Though more Hamans would continue to arise, the Jewish people would survive and celebrate countless Purims in a new Promised ...

Having completed the last two and highly important Torah portions, Yitro and Mishpatim, we come face to face with the very essence of Judaism. Joined together by the letter vav, at the beginning ...

Several celebrities have converted to different religions for various reasons including Sofia Richie, Isla Fisher and Karlie ...

A rabbi who has performed hundreds of funeral writes that the answer speaks not only to how we honor the dead, but to what we ...

The first demand of the “people” was that the purportedly deceased Moses be replaced with numerous leaders. Perhaps they ...

My friend Rich had a deeper understanding of our tradition than those with high IQs.

Like many Jewish students, I found myself confronting this wave of hate. But rather than focusing solely on how to react to this hostility, I realized the more pressing question was: How do we create ...

It seems like no coincidence, then, that we read Esther and Ruth at the beginning and end of this period in the year.

A barely-avoided genocide being celebrated with costumes and drunkenness and jokes is itself a kind of celebration of life ...

Yours is the last Shabbat candle to be lit, completing the global tapestry of light and peace. From today onwards, you and ...