Practice and Ritual

• A Healthy Body and Soul
• A Jewish View of Hunting
• Adoption
• Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah and Confirmation
  • The First American Bat Mitzvah
• Beards
• Bet Din
• Circumcision
• Conversion
• Death and Mourning
• Divorce
• Excommunication
• Gemilut Hasadim
• Hand Washing
• Havdalah
• Homosexuality
• Hospitality
• How to Study Torah
• Is Christianity A More “Loving” Religion Than Judaism?
• Jewish Courts and Judges
• Jewish Liturgy
• Jewish Names
• Jews and Halloween
• Judaism and the Treatment of Animals
  • The Custom of Kapparot in the Jewish Tradition
  • Do Torah Teachings Justify Animal Exploitation?
• Judaism’s Rejection Of Original Sin
• Kashrut: Jewish Dietary Laws
• Kippah (Yarmulke)
• Kissing Holy Objects
• Kitel
• Kosher Sex
  • Menstruation and “Family Purity” (Tohorat ha-Mishpacha)
  • Premarital Sex
• The Laws of the Basic Principles of The Torah
• Living in Israel: Mitzvah or Custom?
• Marriage
  • Levirate Marriage and Halitza
• Menorah
• Mezuzah
• Mitzvot
• The 613 Mitzvot
• Obligation of Women to Perform the Commandments
• Visiting the Sick
• Ner Tamid
• Pidyon Haben
• Pidyon Shvuyim (The Redemption of Captives): How Far Should Israel Go in Order to Redeem Captives from Terrorist Organizations?
• Pikuach Nefesh
• Prayers
• Qorbanot: Sacrifices and Offerings
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Animal Sacrifices and the Messianic Period
• Rabbis
  • A History of Women's Ordination as Rabbis
  • Rabbinic Ordination - Semikha
• The Sanhedrin
• Shaatnez
• Shabbat
• Speech and Lashon Ha-Ra
  • Confidentiality and Slander in Jewish Tradition
  • Criticism: Can you give it? Can you take it?
• Star of David
• Suicide
• Superstitions
• The Synagogue
• Tallis/Tzitzis
• Tattoos
• Tefillin
  • Proper Tefillin Placement
• The Tribes Today: Kohens, Levis, and Yisraels
  • Kohein
• Tzedakah