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 ...

Otto Frank was a German Jewish father who lost his daughters in Auschwitz. Yarden Bibas is an Israeli Jewish father who lost ...

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

This inaugural printed Hebrew edition of the Prophets, with Kimhi’s scholarly annotations, was produced in 1485 by the esteemed Joshua Solomon ben Israel Nathan Soncino. This edition, which predates ...

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

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

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.

But after attending a service at B’nai Jeshurun, she cried “because my soul had been awakened in this space. I said to David ...

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

Feb. 14, 2025 — Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study, revealing new details about mumification ...

The weekly biblical portion of Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1-24:18) contains many common-sense rules demonstrating how the Torah humanized ancient laws in other cultures. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin] ...