The clergy's job is to challenge, to ruffle and to advocate for basic humanity, writes the founder and director of a center for progressive Jewish text study ...

The Torah reveals an uplifting message from God: God will redeem the Hebrew slaves from their misery! But as Moses relays the miraculous news, the Hebrew slaves essentially ignore his announcement.

received a Torah in book form in 1984 burned to the ground. Pacific Palisades, one of our paradises, now a thing of the past. A new plague has blown into Southern California. I don’t know who Pharaoh ...

When Moses resists the Divine call, he expresses a heartfelt and deep humility that serves as a model for all of us.

According to the ACLU, religious symbols are so radioactive that students can’t be anywhere near them,” wrote Joseph Davis, of Becket. “That view is absurd.” ...

Each week, Ari Sliffman, a Jewish legal mediator in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will discuss the week’s Parshah “through the lens of a mediator.” Ari will focus on one or two sections of the Parshah ...

The idea that the Jews are the "Chosen People" is not particularly fashionable, even among many Jews. It's viewed as sectarian, supremacist and even racist. Here are four ways that all of us, Jews and ...

This week’s parsha is tailored to the times in which we are living. Fear of the unknown, “uncertainty,” has spun many into ...

The author, Nancy Klein enhances her unique family story with vivid character sketches and well-remembered family incidents.

Outside the promised land Jews in the biblical age are in danger if they tell the truth. They are at constant risk of being killed or at best enslaved.

The Artists on Antisemitism IV exhibit opens Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Suffolk Y Jewish Community Center in Commack.

Naftali Bennett, former right-wing Israeli prime minister, spoke at the Slifka Center on Tuesday evening as pro-Palestine ...