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Sh’mini: One Offering Too Many?

Torah Talk with Michael Carasik This week, Aaron gets his first chance to offer a sacrifice—but there are too many people making too many offerings. What's going on? (Click here for source sheet.)  Download | Duration: 00:11:43New York’s Lost Temple

In 1865, German Jews built the largest synagogue in the United States, capable of holding 2,000 worshipers, with a breathtaking interior space rising to the equivalent of five stories. What happened to it?A Portal to Hades

New explorations of the Twins Cave in the Judean Hills have unearthed evidence of pagan rituals suggesting that the cave was thought to be an outlet to the underworld.Spinning the Polls

Don't believe the recent surveys. Does anyone think that Obama and his rivals would spend so much time talking about Israel if they did not believe it was an issue that shaped Jews' votes?What is “Glatt”?

Technically, "glatt kosher" refers to an animal whose lungs have no adhesions.  Idiomatically, it means "very kosher."  And what does it mean to the major kashrut supervision agencies? Statistics and Moral Sense

How did Israel, with its famously rowdy press and print culture, wind up second in a ranking of countries that jail the most journalists per capita? An exchange.The Titanic‘s Kosher Meal

The availability of kosher food on the Titanic sheds light on England's role as a transit point for Eastern European Jews on the way to America.Altarcation

Adam Zertal's sensational discovery of "Joshua's altar" should have created a paradigm shift in archeology—that is, if anyone had believed him.Couched Wisdom

Jews are more likely to seek out therapy and believe in its efficacy than are other Americans.