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 ...
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A resurfaced clip of conservative commentator Ben Shapiro in which he calls parts of the Bible "problematic" has recently ...
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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 ...
Conservative/Masorti Judaism’s first official representative to the World Zionist Organization, Rabbi Joseph Wernik, ...
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 ...
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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 ...
It is clear that Judaism and religious observance are responsible for our survival. It would be hard to claim–as Spinoza and Sartre have done—that we remain Jews only because the gentiles hate us.
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.
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?