Beliefs & Practices

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What is Our Responsibility to Other Creatures?

A Jewish perspective on animal suffering and conservation.

What Is Shatnez?

The biblical prohibition against mixing wool and linen.

A.D. Gordon: The Religion of Labor

A Zionist thinker who advocated a return to nature.

Two Conservative Jewish Views on End-of-Life Issues

The Conservative movement validates two opinions on ceasing medical treatment for terminally ill patients.

End of Life Issues: A Jewish Perspective

An introduction to Jewish attitudes toward life support, ceasing medical care, living wills, and caring for patients in their final days

Jews and Alcoholics Anonymous

Dispelling the myths that Jews aren't alcoholics and that AA is only for Christians.

Judaism and the Homeless

Jewish law demands that everyone have adequate and permanent housing.

Abraham Isaac Kook

A radical Orthodox rabbi, poet and mystic who devoted his life to synthesizing some of the most complex and contradictory trends in Jewish tradition.

Judaism and the Other

The various ways Jewish law distinguishes between Jews and gentiles.

Jewish Feminist Theology: A Survey

From theologies that address the male-ness of God to ones that address the femininity of males.

The World to Come

The rabbis of the Talmud had a lot to say on the World to Come, but little about what it actually is.

Jewish Messianism

The belief in a messiah, a person who will redeem the people Israel and usher in a more perfect era, is has long been considered a core plank of Jewish belief.

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