All the elements of Sefer Vayikra – from the Temple offerings to the prohibitions of incest, from holiday observance to loving our neighbor – contribute to the tapestry of sacred living the Torah ...

I wasn't bored as I cut out articles from The Jewish Press to read while waiting for appointments or at simchas. After all, my table neighbors spent a lot of time playing with their phones.

The servitude we experienced in Mitzrayim should sensitize us to human suffering. We know what being a foreigner feels like and should thus care for those in similar situations.

According to most authorities, the family's Judaism was neither religious nor political but, rather, cultural and casual.

While no one ever knows for sure about these things, we are intrigued not only by the advent of the anti-Hamas outcry, but that it was allowed to continue for several days. Plainly, something is afoot ...

A person should never bring himself to undergo a test of faith, as David, king of Israel, brought himself to undergo a test of faith and failed.

There have been moments of national unity in the U.S., where Americans banded together after terrifying circumstances. Think of the kindness and care shown to one another after 9/11. Sadly, that grand ...

As human beings, we are naturally resistant to external instruction or direction, preferring to do things only when we want to do them.

The kingdom of Israel will only endure if the heads of the people assemble together (keep the peace amongst themselves).

The stigma placed on divorcees can make it unclear where to turn for help. Studies show it's in a community's best interest to take care of its most vulnerable and to nurse them back to good spiritual ...

It was well known that Jack Benny celebrated his thirty-ninth birthday every year. When Benny died in 1974, he had turned thirty-nine a total of forty-one times.

But if "all Jews are Jews, except the Jews I really don't like" is your stance, then you don't actually believe in achdut.