Tikkun olam — perfecting the world — is the belle of the ball of modern Jewish thought. And perhaps it deserves to be. The Jewish teaching that this planet can and will be transformed into a world of ...

In Jewish history, few episodes are as dramatic and consequential as the rise and fall of the false messiah Shabbatai Tzvi and the messianic Shabbatean movement that followed. At the heart of this mid ...

You almost want to feel bad for Shavuot. It has none of the ceremony of Passover or the glow of Sukkot. It lacks the urgency of the Yamim Noraim (High Holy Days). It’s less accessible than Hanukkah; ...