"Fiddler on the Moon: Judaism in Space" investigates how the religion would adapt to spaceflight and environments where ...

Conference on Moses Mendelssohn, new book fuel debate on thorny issues of faith, identity. As any Jew knows, trying to define what it means to be Jewish is difficult, if not impossible. Yet still we ...

Zionists draw on the military imagery of Hanukkah, while others look to the synagogue prayers that focus on the miracle of ...

Ashton Kutcher has reflected on his journey from being a Catholic altar boy to embracing Judaism while celebrating Hanukkah ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight ...

Judaism is not a missionary religion, so Jews do not actively try to convert non-Jewish people (in many countries centuries ago anti-Jewish laws prohibited converting to Judaism). Despite this, the ...

Orit Avishai receives funding from Fordham University, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, the Society for the ...

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Meet the other stars (Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Banks!) who have done the same. Natalie Portman, left, and husband Benjamin Millepied arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, for the 84th Annual Academy ...

Judaism doesn't come from God, it comes from the Jews - and the rest is commentary. Rabbi Richard Hirsh: Reconstructionism Today, Winter 2004-5 ...the branch of Judaism least tied to the past and most ...

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett accuses Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party of betraying Jewish and Zionist values, following media reports that the far-right faction ...

Judaism is not a race. But Jewish people can be targeted for racism. That may seem like a contradiction. But a recent ruling by U.S. Magistrate Mark Hornsby of Louisiana updated anti-discrimination ...