Rabbi Bruce D. Forman discusses Parashat Mishpatim, which dives into case law: damages, injuries, lost property, workers’ ...

Roberta Rosenthal Kwall is a law professor, author, and Jewish educator with a focus on American Judaism. Her latest book is ...

The Torah commanded every Jew to write a Torah scroll for himself. From the time that it was permitted to write the Oral Torah, the commandment is fulfilled through purchasing the books by means of ...

When it came time to choose the text on which she would be sworn into the U.S. Senate, Elissa Slotkin turned to a relatively recent book that reflects her own identity as a Jewish woman. Slotkin, a ...

Eli found a 100 year old Torah commentary in our home library that had belonged to the grandfather of my husband, Ron. He opened the book and (accompanied by his bunny) perused the pages. Eli’s not so ...

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But it wasn’t always this way. Before the age of print, Torah texts were scarce, fragile, and painstakingly copied by hand. Even the most foundational works, such as Rashi’s commentary, circulated in ...

It was good to see the Nov. 10 Metro coverage of "Etz Hayim," Conservative Judaism's new chumash (Torah commentary), but I was disappointed in the tone of the article. It gave the impression that the ...

A scarce early Hebrew publication I acquired recently was written and published despite extraordinary difficulties and hardships that the author, and came about as a result of his herculean efforts.

(JTA) — When it came time to choose the text on which she would be sworn into the U.S. Senate, Elissa Slotkin turned to a relatively recent book that reflects her own identity as a Jewish woman.