Beliefs & Practices

This morning on the subway, I was scribbling away in my notebook — scrunched up, as usual, between a 300-pound ...

Earlier this year, the Israeli website HOD launched. It’s a Hebrew acronym that roughly translates to “religious and gay.” It’s ...

A couple of weeks ago, a California man named Naftoli Smolyansky disappeared during a boating trip after jumping in the ...

It’s the month of Elul, the time when we begin the introspection that culminates with the High Holidays. So I ...

On the way out of work yesterday, I was a little dazed — possibly by the sun, possibly by the ...

From our friends at Jbooks. The Daily Show’s resident Brit John Oliver sounds off on apocalyptic literature. Eschatology and comedy: ...

Score one (more) for budding innovative technologies in Israel: at Beit Ha’iver, the Center of the Blind, in Herzliya, a ...

Two things: first of all, Tamar Fox’s article on Jewcy about the struggle to erect an eruv — or what ...

Benyamin Cohen’s new book My Jesus Year is nearing its release date, and the official website has just gone up. ...

Today is the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yitzhak Luria Ashkenazi, aka the Arizal or just the Ari (1534-1572). He was the ...

On the elevator this morning, a courier — this legit-looking man in his late 30s or so — took out ...

For anyone who missed the public outcry last week about the Israeli youth group Bnei Akiva’s new single-sex policy on ...