When I was in high school, we had a teacher, a long-bearded rabbi, who spent weeks of class time focusing on the intricacies of yichud, the Jewish laws forbidding an unrelated man and woman to be in ...

If it doesn’t include social interaction, norms and a desire not to offend, it’s not modesty, CU Boulder philosopher Derick Hughes argues When it comes to definition, “modesty” doesn’t seem all that ...

Wendy Shalit is a young woman of no modest accomplishments. Yet, it’s modesty itself that has given her a national platform. Shalit, who is Jewish and lives with her husband and son in Toronto, spoke ...