For decades, I maintained a status quo of living like a Jew without being one. When I finally pursued conversion, I ...
A resurfaced clip of conservative commentator Ben Shapiro in which he calls parts of the Bible "problematic" has recently ...
“Articles of Faith” is a vital text for anyone interested in the complexities of Orthodox Judaism today as it faces a future ...
Hanukkah last fell on Christmas Day in 2005. Before that, it occurred in 1959 and 1921. It will not happen again until 2035.
Conservative/Masorti Judaism’s first official representative to the World Zionist Organization, Rabbi Joseph Wernik, ...
As the existential threat to Judaism has shifted from antisemitism to Israel-bashing and anti-Zionism, many American Jews ...
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Secular Jews, use religious practices to boost your Jewish identities, despite your lack of faith, for Judaism is too important to leave to the religious ...
What began as a collaboration over food between Congregation Sinai and the Turkish-American Society of Wisconsin has evolved ...
This time it was a Kaddish for Judaism itself. I grew up in a small town in central Israel, in a classic “dati leumi” or national religious community whose ideology combines Zionism and ...
A year later, we are in the midst of a rapidly expanding attempt to negate the idea of the Jewish state and, through it, the idea of Judaism. Yet, the assault on Judaism from the West is not just ...
the revolutionary groups, Sicarii and the Zealots and whatnot, who took their religious understanding of what Judaism was, took their religious interpretations and turned that into a political agenda.