Shouts filled the temple. The Orthodox Jewish priests were bestowing the high holiday blessing. In the congregation was an 8-year-old boy. His father had told him he must not look up. But he could not ...

NORTHAMPTON (AP) – The women appear aglow; black and white images bathed in light. Some are nude, others are loosely covered with translucent robes or Jewish prayer shawls. They are Leonard Nimoy’s ...

The women appear aglow; black and white images bathed in light. Some are nude, others are loosely covered with translucent robes or Jewish prayer shawls. They are Leonard Nimoy's embodiment of ...

When Leonard Nimoy’s book of photography, “Shekhina,” was published in 2002, it created a ruckus. His depiction of alluringly glamorous women — some wearing tefillin in all their naked glory — as the ...

In 2002, the actor best known for his role on “Star Trek,” generated a small storm with his black-and-white photographs of women clad in nothing but prayer shawls and tefillin. When you think of ...

Leonard Nimoy insists he isn’t morphing into the Jewish world’s Robert Mapplethorpe. Yet Nimoy, who won fame as the ultra-rational “Mr. Spock” in the 1960s TV series “Star Trek,” is stirring Jewish ...

When I was three years old, my family lived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma When sukkot came around, we built our sukkah in the front of our house in the driveway. It was wooden and painted a green color ...

I am sitting in Leonard Nimoy’s Manhattan living room discussing naked women. Not just any naked women, but Mr. Spock’s naked women. Nimoy’s naked women. “I Am Not Spock” was the title of Nimoy’s ...

Erev Shavuot, Salonika, 1533. Two young Sephardic rabbinic luminaries – Rav Yosef Karo and Rav Shlomo Alkabetz – got together for Tikkun Leil Shavuot, the all night Torah study custom first mentioned ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: This weekend, the new Star Trek movie, Nemesis, opens in theaters across the country, featuring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The film raises issues of good and ...

Shekhina Shawn never thought she’d become an opera singer. She grew up learning Carnatic music, gave several semi-classical and light music concerts with her sister through her teens, strummed the ...