Beliefs & Practices

Some ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders are describing the arrests in NJ as a “wakeup call” rather than issue the usual suspicion ...

The cover of The Baal Teshuva Survival Guide, a handbook to making it as a newly-minted Orthodox Jew, depicts a ...

Is it just me, or is every article about Orthodoxy these days either glorifying it or attacking the very existence ...

Remember the Promise Keepers? No? Well they were a big group of Evangelical men who liked to meet up in ...

What happens when Jewish women intermarry? Do they lose their ties to Judaism, or do they develop stronger ties to ...

As one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi has labored his whole life to make ...

There has been a marked growth in the use of instrumental music for Friday night services, including a rise in ...

Last night I was working at our local co-op market. The crowd there is pretty diverse — Hasidic Jews, Caribbean ...

A man is unable to marry because the Israeli Rabbinate decides that he is actually an adoptee, although there is ...

In a few hours we begin mourning the destruction of the Temple. Tisha B’Av is considered the saddest day of ...

America in the 20th century saw an explosion of technology that was unprecedented. People, whether they were comfortable with it ...

Rabbi Reuven Hammer sees much present relevance to what Jeremiah had to say about the destruction of the first Temple ...