This has been the year of women claiming agency. We began 2017 marching for our rights in Washington, D.C., and we end the year shifting the national dialogue on sexual harassment and assault. We’ve ...

Social justice is more than a footnote in the Torah. It's a central theme, Little Rock Rabbi Barry Block maintains. The Holiness Code in Leviticus requires more than sacrifices and Sabbath observance; ...

It hasn’t been long — just the last dozen years in human time, but a blink of an eye in the long arc of Torah interpretation — that women have published scholarly commentaries on the Jewish Bible. Now ...

When it came time to choose the text on which she would be sworn into the U.S. Senate, Elissa Slotkin turned to a relatively recent book that reflects her own identity as a Jewish woman. Slotkin, a ...

How many people know that when the Torah describes Abraham mourning the death of Sarah, it’s the only time in the entire text that a man mourns a woman? Or that Adam and Eve were equal partners in ...

Whether on parchment or paper, the Torah continues to be the most intriguing and enchanting book (or scroll) ever composed, revered in the Bronze Age and Atomic Age alike. It surely is the only book ...

Rabbi David Kasher, associate rabbi at IKAR, is a self-described “Torah nerd.” For five years, he kept up a weekly parsha blog and became totally immersed in Torah commentary. He had books open all ...

It is a spiritual treasure of Scripture, poetry, literature and history. It is the foundational sacred text of Judaism and is revered by Christians and Muslims as well. For thousands of years, Jews ...

Erev Shavuot, Salonika, 1533. Two young Sephardic rabbinic luminaries – Rav Yosef Karo and Rav Shlomo Alkabetz – got together for Tikkun Leil Shavuot, the all night Torah study custom first mentioned ...

Slotkin, a former congresswoman who narrowly won her election in November, took the oath of office on a copy of “The Torah: A Women’s Commentary,” published by the Reform movement of Judaism. When it ...