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 ...
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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 ...
“Articles of Faith” is a vital text for anyone interested in the complexities of Orthodox Judaism today as it faces a future ...
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 ...
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Hanukkah last fell on Christmas Day in 2005. Before that, it occurred in 1959 and 1921. It will not happen again until 2035.
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.
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 ...