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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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?