Vayikra’s message of purity, repentance, and unity teaches that even without sacrifices, we can draw closer to God and to one another.

The Hebrew phrase ezer kenegdo (עֵזֶר כְּנֶגְדּוֹ) appears in the Torah, the Hebrew Bible, in Genesis 2:18 and 20, when the Bible speaks of the creation of Eve, the wife of Adam. The words are not ...

Here's what to know about Passover, when Passover 2026 begins and ends, and a calendar of when other Jewish holidays land in 2026.

Gesa Shira Ederberg was not yet a rabbi when she was tapped to lead a seder, to teach Hebrew, and to organize an egalitarian ...

From a bar mitzvah in Jerusalem to Friday nights at Chabad at Emory, Joshua Glazer shares his journey of finding God through ...

Considering Esther's role in the Purim story, "it just makes sense for women to narrate the story in a public way." ...

A tambourine-lover with creative tactics meant to take congregants outside of their comfort zone, Rabbi RuthE Levy of Mountain Synagogue in Franklin doesn’t mess around when it comes to musical ...

As algorithms dumb down the needs of scholarship, traditional Jewish textual analysis and argumentation may offer a way back. The Passover seder is a good model ...

Philadelphia, perhaps more than any other American city, makes visible the connection between religious life and the American ...

The places where American Jewish vulnerability has been demonstrated are like pins in a map of the United States: Pittsburgh; Poway, California; Colleyville, Texas; Jackson, Mississippi. In the last ...

Each year, when we read the sections of the Torah that describe the building of the Mishkan, the portable Tabernacle, many people notice something surprising. The Torah already spent two ...

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and former U.S. Rep. David Cicilline are among 13 adults celebrating late-in-life bar and bat ...