Beliefs & Practices

Our partner, The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, regularly hosts Jewish study sessions on a variety of different topics.  Last week, they ...

Had the Lord been a God of stern, mechanical justice, then long ago he might have repudiated his covenant and ...

Every year, during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, Muslims around the world observe a month-long fast. This fast, ...

Why did Nixon refuse to compel Israel to join the nuclear non-proliferation regime? (Ha’aretz)Why are the “days between the times“–so ...

Benyamin Cohen, former editor of the sadly-demised American Jewish Life magazine, wrote a book called My Jesus Year. It detailed ...

The originality and creativity in man are rooted in his loneliness-experience, not in his social awareness…Social man is superficial: he ...

One of my rabbis used to tell me that everything we say can be a prayer — and, more than ...

The Forward has released its annual guide to genetics, which features numerous articles about testing for and combating Jewish genetic ...

I wish I knew more details about this story beyond “I saw this on Colbert Report last night and thought ...

There’s a fascinating article over at the Christian Science Monitor now about the increasing level of religiosity in the Israeli ...

An English MP named Jim Fitzpatrick was invited to a constituent’s wedding last night, and he and his wife attended, ...

Over at experimental theology Richard Beck has a story about a girl who came to him and said something about ...