Raymond Apple

As far as I am concerned, what makes humor Jewish is that its content could only happen among Jews. It has a Jewish setting, a Jewish set of idioms and experiences.

This article is not primarily concerned with government gun policies but with the moral issues that arise from the point of view of Jewish law, tradition and ethics.

The historian Cecil Roth had a theory that Simhat Torah was modeled on a wedding, and that the festival's customs are derived from Jewish marriage.

Cherubim appear in many biblical passages. The texts do not explicitly define them. Were they real or just imaginary? What we find in the Bible is not so much what they are but what they do.

The shofar is normally the great dramatic moment of the New Year service.

Louis Jacobs says in one of his books, “Jewish theology is an attempt to think through consistently the implications of the Jewish religion."

The Jewish response to the coronavirus pandemic was largely traditional: fasting and repentance, prayer and Psalms, especially Psalm 91 (Yoshev B’Seter).

Australians want Australia to be a good place for every Australian.

Jews who lived in the Old World often encountered constant gloom, never seeing green trees or even the sunlight.

Unlike ancient Sparta, where the elderly were expected to go off somewhere and vanish, gray power can still contribute to society.