For many of us who are normally eager to share our words, this is a time of wordlessness. It’s hard to separate all the ...

And of course, the most important group of all are not the Pharisees, not the Sadducees, not the Essenes, not the revolutionaries, but the plain Jews. Plain simple folk who presumably live their ...

But history has forced Jews to live by a simple mantra: “when people tell you who they are, believe them.” We’d prefer not to ...

Just as out of all the women of the world, a man’s wife is his beloved, so, too, out of all the nations of the world, the Jews are God’s ...

It has fallen to every generation of Jews to determine how much openness is necessary, and how much is too much. That's the miracle of Hanukkah. (RNS) — Hanukkah is here, and with it ...