Beliefs & Practices

You Can Fill My Pool With That Anytime.

Our newest section, Magic & the Supernatural, has articles about all types of amulets and other magical objects. We’ve been ...

G-dcast has been going off the hook lately. First there was the wave of Jewish blogs raving, then the Gigaom ...

Technological artist Elliot Malkin isn’t a stranger to religious art. While still a student at NYU, he designed Crucifix NG, ...

The Hebrew Bible condemns certain forms of divination and magic, while celebrating others as behaviors suitable for Israelite heroes.

Complex systems of letter and number substitution yield names for God that have been used for magical and supernatural ends.

I haven’t yet seen Bill Maher’s new documentary Religulous, but it’s premise is hardly novel. By now, we know the ...

Some traditional Jewish sources indicate belief in the efficacy of spells.

(Cross-posted at The Jew & The Carrot)I love sukkot, but one of the things that has always frustrated me about ...

Earlier today, Tamar called out the Hasidic community in Williamsburg for, well, defacing advertisements for restaurants that are seen as ...

So it turns out it’s not impossible.Â According to the recently published edition of the Journal of Fish Biology, there ...

During Yom Kippur services this year, I came up with the best praying strategy I’ve ever had, I think. It’s ...

I don’t know about you, but I’m constantly haunted.It might just be my social awkwardness speaking (because, really, when’s the ...