We all know that Father’s Day is a secular American holiday, invented as a way of honoring fathers as a complement to Mother’s Day. Sometimes

In medieval Haggadot, it was not unusual to find an illustration of maror—the bitter herb on the Seder plate—in a woman’s form. In the partner,

The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time…and said…I will bestow my blessing upon you and make your descendents as numerous as

Years ago, I read After Auschwitz: History, Theology, and Contemporary Judaism, Richard Rubenstein’s painful little book published in 1966. It argues that the covenant between God

We are at a small dinner party with close friends as rockets rain down on Israel and on Gaza. Everyone at the table is Jewish.

Shavuot, which celebrates the time we stood at Sinai, is associated first and foremost with hearing the Ten Commandments. But the Midrash brings a much

“It is the obligation of each person,” the Talmud tells us of Purim, “to be so drunk as not to be able to tell the

In the 1980s, in my late twenties, I was studying in a yeshiva for young women who had no religious education. Newly arrived in Israel,