Judaism

In her new book “Jewish Sunday Schools,” Laura Yares backdates the story of Jewish education by over a century.

Greenstein has given humanity a great gift, the translation of the Book of Job in a manner in which we can better understand this important book of the Bible.

RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS: Israel’s National Library debuts the largest collection of Kabbalah ‘trees,’ expected to form the cornerstone of one of the most important collections of Judaica.

Choosing to be Jewish is at the center of Jewish life in America, how are the different streams of Judaism adapting?

Korah seeks to seemingly democratize the nation by decrying Moses’s elitism and creates division by offering egalitarianism, but Moses sees what he's really after: Unbridled power.

Korah and his co-insurrectionists were expert orators who built their popularity by whipping up populist hysteria, exploiting national anxieties, and manipulating the angry mob.

The central thesis of the book – supported by careful text analysis – is that Halacha itself reflects and promotes many humanistic values. 

More than 150 years after his great-great-great-grandfather, Brian Sherr aims to re-inaugurate Tiferet Israel Synagogue.

By specifying that Korah's sons didn't die, the Torah warns us that demagogues live in every generation, including our own.