For many years, Americans have dug through the recesses of world religious heritage seeking an ancient, yet relevant, truth. Jewish mysticism — like Buddhism, paganism and Hinduism before it — is the ...

Rabbi Rachel Adler is a woman of many accomplishments. She is a celebrated and revered feminist theologian. She is the David Ellenson Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at Hebrew Union College Jewish ...

This week, Jews around the world are observing the High Holidays, the 10-day period beginning with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and ending this Wednesday with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

SAFED, Israel — Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, is known around the world thanks to the many Hollywood celebrities who have embraced its teachings. While Madonna and Demi Moore may be seen walking in ...

The question addressed in this article explores the intersection of theology and mysticism in Judaism and Islam. All religions have mystical elements in every aspect of religious life, from the ...

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL. 1480s Wine and Worship on Gaza’s Hill: A Forgotten Chapter of Jewish Life. In the late ...

If you haven't read Hebrew since the rite-of-passage ceremony known as the bar mitzvah, customarily conducted at the age of 13, then a willfully obscure text of ancient Jewish mysticism is probably ...

Kabbalah, Judaism's mystical tradition, has been practiced for at least 800 years and is, at its essence, as old as mankind. And yet, judging by a profusion of classes, books and celebrity ...

(RNS) — Jews are not unfamiliar with pain and suffering. We memorialize national calamity with holidays, rituals and remembrances, as we do today on Holocaust Remembrance Day. We have highly scripted ...

It was truly a historic find. About 15 years ago, archivists examining several yellowed volumes of notarial records in the city of Girona in northeastern Spain began suspecting that the covers were ...