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 ...
As the existential threat to Judaism has shifted from antisemitism to Israel-bashing and anti-Zionism, many American Jews ...
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Our last thoughts before sleep and our first thoughts upon waking have a powerful impact on our minds. This may be why ...
Conservative/Masorti Judaism’s first official representative to the World Zionist Organization, Rabbi Joseph Wernik, ...
Hanukkah last fell on Christmas Day in 2005. Before that, it occurred in 1959 and 1921. It will not happen again until 2035.
Several Ohio towns were home to Jewish populations before most of their members moved to cities. See where Jewish communities ...
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 ...
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.