Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” is a Jewish text that compiles ethical teachings and moral wisdom from a wide range of rabbinic sages. It is unique among the Mishna’s tractates for focusing on ...

The Torah is the foundational text of the Jewish People. Initially, it asserts a pre-history and a purpose of the ancient Judahite kingdom to which contemporary Jews trace their emotional and often ...

Parshat Yitro: Exodus 18:1-20:22; Isaiah 6:1-7:6; 9:5-6. The verses immediately preceding the Decalogue Revelation at Sinai are curious, to say the least. God and Moses enter a dialogue that appears ...

War is horrible — and, sometimes, a necessity. Is there a way Israel’s aims can be both achieved and understood by the world as justified? Philosophical discussions of “just war theory” historically ...

–The opinion that the non-Jewish population should receive the opportunity through wide propaganda of learning the value of the Jewish religious laws concerning family life and sex hygiene, was voiced ...