Social justice is more than a footnote in the Torah. It's a central theme, Little Rock Rabbi Barry Block maintains. The Holiness Code in Leviticus requires more than sacrifices and Sabbath observance; ...

Books, libraries and librarians. Who can live without them? Nobody in my family. Growing up in Brownsville in the late ’40s and ’50s, libraries were unavailable in the elementary schools. It was not ...

As Utah authors and illustrators of books for young readers, we condemn the efforts to suppress, demonize and ban books from our state’s schools and libraries. These attempts overwhelmingly target ...

Rabbi David Kasher, associate rabbi at IKAR, is a self-described “Torah nerd.” For five years, he kept up a weekly parsha blog and became totally immersed in Torah commentary. He had books open all ...