Why do people choose a particular religion? Maud, a 46-year-old television journalist who has been drawn to spirituality ...
After October 7th, as Israelis instinctively reached for ritual, memory, and community, another movement unfolded alongside it—less visible at first, but no less consequential. Jews who had long felt ...
Yet this framing itself is mistaken. God did not ask the Jewish people to choose between faithfulness and responsibility, ...
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman writes “when approached thoughtfully, Christmas can function as a once-a-year invitation for Jews to rest, reset, soften our emotional guard, and rediscover our own ...
The global organization represents a branch of Hasidic Judaism. It is dedicated to strengthening Jewish life through ...
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Faith can’t be forced: The dangers of coerced Judaism

When the Knesset legislates religious practice, it not only harms Israel's democracy but undermines the Jewish identity it ...
The shift marks a significant change in tone for a movement that long treated intermarriage as a threat to Jewish continuity, ...
Genesis 9:23-25, Bereshit Rabbah 36:7 and quotes from Rabbi Berhard Felsenthal (founder of the Jewish Publication Society and ...
Bay Area-born writer and producer Raphael Bob-Waksberg talks to J. about his latest animated series, “Long Story Short.” ...
When Americans want to learn Yiddish, they usually sign up for classes at YIVO, the Yiddish Book Center or the Workers Circle ...