Work may be done for six days, but the seventh day must be holy for you—a complete rest from work—unto G-d. Whoever does work ...

What America's founding father Benjamin Rush can teach about challenging the denial of Jewish identity and history and ...

This parasha is explicitly about gathering the many kinds of materials for the Mishkan, the moving sanctuary in the desert.

The tenth and eleventh weekly Torah readings from Exodus, Vayakkel (35:1-38:20) and Pekekudei (38:21-40:38) deal with the construction of the Tabernacle during Moses’s time. Many readers think the ...

The Romans named the seventh day Saturday, based on the Roman god Saturn. The word means “enough.” Saturn’s reign was ...

At Israel’s founding in 1948, the new nation’s leaders agreed that ultra-Orthodox men — known as the Haredim, or God-fearing, ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

Joy Ladin, a poet, creative non-fiction writer and nationally recognized thought leader on gender and Jewish identity, will ...

If there is a message for this Purim, for this moment in history, it is this: the story of the Jewish people is not just a ...

Question: I would like to have a better understanding of a practice that I and many others are a party to every year before Passover: How does the sale of chametz to a gentile take effect if it is ret ...

It takes creativity to embrace an invisible God. It takes strength to worship a God who exists, who lives, but who does not ...

Rabbi David Benchlouch is a special contributor to MyNorthwest. He is the head rabbi of Congregation Ezra BessAroth, a ...