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 ...
For decades, I maintained a status quo of living like a Jew without being one. When I finally pursued conversion, I ...
As the existential threat to Judaism has shifted from antisemitism to Israel-bashing and anti-Zionism, many American Jews ...
“Articles of Faith” is a vital text for anyone interested in the complexities of Orthodox Judaism today as it faces a future ...
Our last thoughts before sleep and our first thoughts upon waking have a powerful impact on our minds. This may be why ...
We were in the seventh grade and first feeling female attraction. Like many other teenagers, we wondered out loud why Judaism is so restrictive of how men and women interact. We asked our rebbi why ...
There is a growing sense of urgency, but the "feeling" in the party is that at the moment there is no concrete proposal on ...
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, ...
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Judaism without God
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 ...
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 ...