Beliefs & Practices

Heresy in Judaism

Various movements within the religion have been viewed heretical by those who disagreed with them.

In this installment of â€œFrom the Academy,â€? Dr. Joel Hecker, Chair of the Department of Modern Jewish Civilization and Associate ...

While the offense was once punishable by death, Jews do not enforce the rules anymore.

While Jewish tradition does not make a big deal of birthdays, there is no problem with celebrating them.

More and more Orthodox women are exploring the boundaries of their participation in communal Jewish prayer. An Israeli couple has ...

Jewish bioethicists, across the denominational spectrum, tend to consider that cessation of breathing (which is connected to brain stem activity) ...

Talking about the decline of Jewish Peoplehood was all the rage in 2007. But the debate between Jewcy’s Joey Kurtzman ...

Oh Conservative Movement, you continue our love-hate relationship. Today I hate you.The movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards recently ...

-A mathematician makes the argument that the amazing coincidences, â€œmiracles,â€? that people take as evidence for the existence of God ...

The Wikipedia entry on Muhammad contains a 15th century illustration of the Muslim prophet preaching the Quran. But iconography like ...

In anticipation of today’s primaries, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada ...

I stumbled upon an interesting passage in Mordecai Kaplan’s Judaism As a Civilization that articulates one of the pressing questions ...