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If there’s one thing the Jewish community is all-too often missing, it’s self-criticism. Groups and movements tend to blame other ...

Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who founded the Secular Humanistic Judaism movement, died in a car crash this weekend. He was 79. ...

Last week, NPR’s “Heard on the Street” featured a “debate” between Jew for Jesus Larry Dubin and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld ...

Yesterday, for the second time in a week, Pope Benedict XVI reversed positions of the Second Vatican Council, which in ...

In an effort to get smarter and diversify my knowledge, I’ve recently decided to try and read Wikipedia’s daily featured ...

Judaism recognizes that sibling relationships are very important, and can be very challenging.

Today’s Jerusalem Post had an article that began as follows: Woman rabbi flies to US to preach aliya It’s not ...

Anorexia and bulimia are amongst the most emotionally and physically devastating disorders affecting young Jewish women.

Although the bar/bat mitzvah meal is traditionally a seudat mitzvah--a meal with sacred status--extravagance has been rife for hundreds of years.

Ynet News recently reported the following story about Rabbi Avraham Yosef: During a radio show on which he replies to ...

Over at Jewcy, editor Joey Kurtzman and JTS provost Jack Wertheimer recently concluded a heated debate about the state of ...

The other day, Meredith blogged about Elliot Cosgrove’s Forward op-ed about the unfortunate decline of Jewish theology. But I’d like ...