Most readers think Leviticus is about dull things: priests and their sacrificial offerings, blood taboos and bodily fluids, the holiness code. In her new book, Avivah Zornberg shows that there is more ...

Kosher eating, rooted in Jewish tradition, is surrounded by myths and misunderstandings. From ingredient selection to food ...

Is it the sukka of our desert wanderings, the temporary hut which the Israelites constructed in the desert when they wandered ...

Republicans once used fearmongering over marriage equality to get voters to the polls. Now they're doing the same with trans ...

The fast of Yom Kippur is explained in the Bible and described in the Book of Leviticus as a day of cleansing, where the Jewish people atone for their sins, become pure, and pray that they are ...

So that, for example, the scapegoat of the Book of Leviticus who bears off the sins of the Israelites is a type pointing ahead to Jesus and his bearing the sins of the world, according to ...

Next week, the first full moon since the Harvest Moon will fill the sky for three days. This moon, known as the “Hunter’s ...

Sukkahs symbolize the structures that the Israelites lived in during their wilderness journey. But some rabbis envision them ...

Klingbeil, Gerald A. 2009. Between the Traditional and the Innovative: Ezra‐Nehemiah in Current Research. Religion Compass, Vol. 3, Issue. 2, p. 182.

History intersected with history on Oct. 18, when the Fisk University Choir sang in Evanston at the invitation of Lula B.

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy ... the Torah (i.e. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers & Deut.), which from the time of Ezra had remained fixed as ...

Anyway, he eyed me with all the insouciance of a 22-year-old with little more than a golden peach-fuzz of down on his pert ...