Two newly ordained Renewal rabbis from Oakland are bolstering the movement’s 50-year-old legacy in the East Bay.

Yet, according to the fourth-century sage Rava, it is a religious commandment for a person not only to drink but “to become intoxicated with wine on Purim until he does not know how to distinguish ...

A few days before flying back to LA – dragging my feet along with my suitcase… but for that last Shabbat ... but with an ancient twist; and the words Ofra Haza sang so powerfully come from the Hebrew ...

For generations of Jews, the Shabbat represented an unbreakable freedom. They knew every new Pharaoh was a phony, and that no ...

Rabbi Daniel Bouskila is the international director of the Sephardic Educational Center.

Approach the conversation with them, not at them. Show up with vulnerability. Be OK with saying, “I don’t know.” Acknowledge ...

Israel National News' Israel desk is stopping its round-the-clock news updates at this time in honor of the Sabbath. Jerusalem candle lighting time is 16:45 on Friday. Israel National News' North ...

With how the world is right now, it was a matter more of when, rather than if, something like this would happen,” the ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

A society is only as stable and moral as its commitment to protecting its most vulnerable members. Therefore, the laws in Mishpatim repeatedly return to the treatment of slaves.

Episode 30 of the "On your Own" Podcast hosted by Esther Shemtov: Interview with Rivka Mazal, on what it looks like to get ...