More and more Orthodox Jewish women are celebrating Purim by taking the lead in reading aloud to other women the heroic story of a queen and her people in the Book of Esther. More →

February 27, 2015

“We are a very noisy, verbalizing, speechifying language animal, and I love that. But we walk around as so many millions of talking books.” More →

March 21, 2014

“In the last couple of generations, we’ve seen a great increase in Jewish learning amongst women. Women have said, ‘Well, we are also obliged in the commandment. We can take a leading role.'” More →

March 21, 2014

Read an excerpt from IN THE COMPANY OF CHRIST: A PILGRIMAGE THROUGH HOLY WEEK by Benedicta Ward. More →

March 30, 2012

View a gallery of images illuminating the psalms by Hebrew manuscript artist Debra Band. More →

November 24, 2010

The blast of the shofar during the High Holy Days, says Rabbi Irwin Tanenbaum, “sends a shiver. We can be better than we are.” More →

September 3, 2010

View a gallery of selected details from an anthology of 36 psalms, “I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms,” by Hebrew manuscript artist Debra Band (Jewish Publication Society, 2007). In her introduction to the illuminations she writes: “Just as psalms … More →

July 2, 2010

“It’s affixed and not movable, because that’s like God is—our rock, always there, always affixed to our hearts,” says Rabbi Tamara Miller. More →

April 9, 2010

Bhavana Gupta says her generation will go to a Hindu temple in New Delhi and say, “Let’s give the priest 500 rupees to have him do a good prayer service for us.” But the younger generation questions this traditional Hindu practice and asks why. More →

January 22, 2010

Watch an extended video of our interview with philosopher and author Michael Walzer, who explains the story of the deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. More →

April 3, 2009