It has often been said that there is little more to the ethics of the Hebrew Scriptures than doing whatever God commands you to do: If you have instruction directly from God himself or from a prophet, ...

JEWS THE world over will gather around the Seder table this week to recount again the great narrative of their ancestors’ redemption from slavery in Egypt. In retelling the story, they will quote the ...

The occurrence of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks), which is observed this year at the end of May and is associated in Jewish tradition with the giving of the Ten Commandments and of ...