Beliefs & Practices
Levites Today
Even after the Temple's destruction, Levites enjoy some unique ritual privileges.
Karet: A Biblical Punishment
What does it mean to be 'cut off' from the Jewish people?
Blogging Avot: Wieseltier on Identity
At the President’s Conference yesterday, I attended a session called “Jewish Identity: Unraveling or Renewing?” a panel discussion featuring — ...
Jewish Beliefs and Practices
-Debra Ruth Kolodny crafts “A new Ceremony of Simchat Bat,� explaining the rationale behind the process. (Ritualwell)-Rabbi Shlomi Aviner, one ...
Blogging Avot: Bad Neighbors
Pirkei Avot 1:7 is a short mishnah with further advice about who to (and in this case, who not to) ...
Peoplehood is so vacant, it’s vacuous
In last week’s Forward, Jay Michaelson entered the Peoplehood debate with force, simultaneously acknowledging his own sense of connection to ...
Muslims and Jews
-As Jewish-Muslim interfaith efforts intensify, critics say that Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is selective in which acts of terrorism ...
People or Religion
In honor of the debate I had with Ariel Beery this week about distinctions between Jewish Peoplehood and the Jewish ...
Christians and Jews
-An “observant Catholic with Jewish tendencies, and … a Jew sobered up from a drugged out mysticism� combine to write ...
Ultra Nomenclature
In the Forward this week, Abbott Katz begins his plea for new Jewish nomenclature with: “Stop calling me an ultra-Orthodox ...
Messianic Jews in Israel
Last week, a 15 year-old boy had to have his leg amputated after being wounded by an exploding Purim gift ...
