The move by Adath Jeshurun’s leadership marks a deliberate departure from the stricter standards long upheld by the ...

The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...

On June 20, Larry Pepper was sworn in as president of Men of Reform Judaism at a Friday night service at Temple Kol Ami ...

A very strange form of Judaism has been developing in the West Bank for many years. It is the Judaism of Joshua, of conquest, ...

On both sides the critical discourse of anti-Judaism became so important that, by the 1790s, the greatest contemporary thinkers could debate whether the French Revolution represented a victory of ...

I’ve no doubt that Netanyahu and his coalition partners perform the prescribed Jewish ceremonies and celebrate the essential holidays in some form. Nor do I question their genealogical heritage from ...

Judaism is a very deep, sophisticated, countercultural tradition. I'll give you an example. There's a lot of Jewish thinking around how we use our speech around things like gossip and shaming people.

Judaism is a profoundly this-world-oriented religious tradition. The Hebrew Bible maintains a relative silence about an afterlife, calling its version of the afterlife Sheol — a shadowy pit ...

Vidas: The covenant as we find it in the Hebrew Bible is about life, not about death. It promises, to those who keep it, a long and prosperous life (see, for example, Deuteronomy 6:2, in which one ...