In October, amid the two-year anniversary of the Gaza genocide, Jewish settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank hit ...

Like most rabbis, Rabbi Price held that it is appropriate to convert non-Jewish spouses, even if they do not intend to ...

Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams visited the Western Wall, emphasizing his commitment to Israel and the Jewish people: ...

Rabbi David Samson: "Just as a person can’t pick up a scalpel and become a brain surgeon without years of preparation, a ...

The teaching of both Islam and Judaism is that an evil thought only becomes sinful when it results in evil behavior. But humans do need to be limited by societal and religious restrictions. Examples ...

The classic example of Jewish ethics vs. “the law of the Torah” is the story of Shimon ben Shetach in the Palestinian Talmud Baba Metzia 2:5. Simeon ben Shetach, circa 140-60 BCE, was a Pharisee ...

Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” is a Jewish text that compiles ethical teachings and moral wisdom from a wide range of ...

Books bring out the best in us. I was signing books at a library one blustery evening when a man came inside and told us he lost an envelope with two $100 bills. We figured he’d never see that again, ...

The dialogue sparked by the 1965 Vatican document reached new lows after October 7. Now that fighting might be over, optimism ...

In 1915, a Christian minister spoke at a Jewish funeral in Tupper Lake, New York. The synagogue is now celebrating its 120th ...

Amid the harvest, descendants of Holocaust survivors paused their farmwork to pray in a tent beside the fields — the first ...