For decades, I maintained a status quo of living like a Jew without being one. When I finally pursued conversion, I ...
Nikki Schreiber decided two things: that she needed to honor her late father’s memory and that the world needed more positive ...
As the existential threat to Judaism has shifted from antisemitism to Israel-bashing and anti-Zionism, many American Jews ...
Several Ohio towns were home to Jewish populations before most of their members moved to cities. See where Jewish communities ...
Our last thoughts before sleep and our first thoughts upon waking have a powerful impact on our minds. This may be why ...
Hanukkah last fell on Christmas Day in 2005. Before that, it occurred in 1959 and 1921. It will not happen again until 2035.
Through text and images, “we can celebrate our story, the Jewish story,” said Nikki Schreiber. “We can give people a little flavor of our lives.” ...
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 ...
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 ...
When did Judaism as we know it today—devoted to one God and the teachings of the Torah—really take root? How did the religious practices of the earliest Israelites differ from Judaism?
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.