The third book of the Torah is commonly known in English as Leviticus. The name comes from Greek and simply means “pertaining ...

There is one teaching in particular that is repeated more than any other through these first five books of the Hebrew Bible — ...

The inky wretch never teased me about anything, but he did think it was funny when I decided to read the Bible straight through. "It's not Jane Austen," he told me.

Welcoming the stranger — and opening one’s home to guests at the seder — is a defining theme of Passover, the eight-day spring holiday known as the Festival of Freedom.

The first parsha of Vayikra (also called Vayikra) introduce the system of sacrifices, or korbanot. The Hebrew word for ...

Although it might seem impossible now, I do believe that within a decade or two Muslims will visit Jerusalem and pray ...

Witnessing the birth of a cow and then watching her butchered for meat years later changed this rabbi’s relationship to ...

A Jewish tradition dating back to Biblical times is returning to eastern Idaho. Chabad-Lubavitch of Idaho, a Boise-based ...

Hashem is concerned with the fate and direction of all people and wants us to offer them direction. Judaism and Jews are ...

Public domain A few weeks ago, after catching a 5:37 a.m. Megillah reading courtesy of a kind-hearted and early-rising friend ...

Experience the Exodus like never before with this graphic novel Haggadah, which makes the story immediate, visual, and ...

Friedman’s prescription for this problem was not withdrawal but what he called a “non-anxious, and sometimes challenging ...