Israel's response to the victims of the Turkey earthquake is the Jewish one

My blessing for Muhammed Ahmed - a two-year-old rescued from the rubble

A winter’s tale: why Tu Bishvat falls at this time

When others grumble and despair at winter’s length, we look ahead to a new year of life and growth

Why Yom Kippur is not the day of the locust

The rabbis linked a prophetic vision of the voracious insects to the Day of Atonement...

The day when the Jewish people came closest to God

The giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai was not a one-off, each Shavuot we relive it

The Torah helps us understand events like the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting

Rabbi David Lister unpacks the Jewish attitude to tragedy

The spiritual nationalism of Yom Kippur

When the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies, he carried the hopes of a nation

Why mystics linked Tu Bishvat with a bucket

There's more to Friday night candles than meets the eye

From the ashes of despair on Tishah b'Av comes a ray of hope

The document that saved my mother's life

The last days of Pesach: keeping faith amid a sea of uncertainty

When 12 turns into 13: the extra dimensions of a leap year

The shofar's many voices

How a few notes of the ram's horn span the whole of human history

How Sunday cheder can adapt to survive

As Jewish schools expand, part-time synagogue classes are on the wane.

Why Chanucah echoes the light of Creation

We find a prophetic glimpse of next week’s festival in the opening words of Genesis

Why Rosh Hashanah is the world's birthday

We unravel the connection between the Ten Days of Repentance and the story of Creation