My Torah portion is called Bereshit.  It is about how God created the universe and everything within it.  Creation took place in many progressive steps: light, sky, land, heavenly constellations, fish and birds, animals, and …

She walks through a dimly lit, lime-colored side-door entrance that leads to an elaborate stage. She slowly comes to the front of the stage, and then does something nobody expects. Instead of sitting down at …

My fate as a civil libertarian was sealed at age twelve in a Hebrew school classroom. All sixth-graders were required to take a course on the Holocaust, and on this day one of our teachers, …

My 20-year-old boyfriend is converting to Judaism. He is uncircumcised and very wary about having the procedure. It’s important to me that he does indeed go through with all the rites of conversion (including circumcision). …