In both Jewish and Chinese cultures, the home is more than a dwelling—it is a sacred space that reflects the soul of a family ...

At Svara, LGBTQ Jews are reinterpreting and reshaping Jewish tradition by copying the methods used by the rabbis who compiled the Talmud.

The Talmud is almost as sacred to Jews as Scripture, but by no means does every Jew know what is in it. English editions of the 20-volume compilation of law and learning run to several hundred ...

A forgotten folk ritual, widespread in Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, saw residents assemble on the Shabbat before ...

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Algorithms reward extremes — the flashy, the provocative, the viral — not the nuanced or the complex. Judaism will suffer for ...

The city that was so Jewish that anti-Semites would call it “Jew York” just gave its Democrat primary choice to an outright ...

The Talmud (Sanhedrin 94a) tells us that God wanted to make King Hezekiah the messiah but refrained from doing so because, unlike what the Jews did at the Red Sea, he did not sing praise to God ...

Rabbi Yehoshua Mizrachi is an author and scholar of Judaism and the Talmud, and can speak with command and authority on the intricacies of Jewish law. Yet, when confronted by an agnostic asking about ...

Out of all the scripture and poetry and midrash that fills Jewish history, all the mysticism and folktales, all the prophecy and piety, all the humor and skepticism, for me one of the most moving ...

Regular readers of the Forward might have noticed that, over the years, we’ve published a consistent smattering of stories ...

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape ...