Beliefs & Practices

Apparently, Abraham Joshua Heschel has a Facebook page. I want him to be my friend. But what if he says ...

In fact, my dog is Jewish. Here’s how I know.I recently moved with my husband to an outer suburb of ...

I was recently researching some of the ritual practices of Jews for Jesus and stumbled upon the website of the ...

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the Boteach/Steinhardt/Feldman debate on Jewish values. As I wrote, Boteach left the audience ...

The American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think-tank that has served as the home to many neoconservatives, hosted an event this ...

Last weekend’s Jewish Week contained an op-ed by Sherri Mandell that seemed to want to make a point about “Orthodox-bashing” ...

Last night, Elie Wiesel began his lecture at the 92nd Street Y with a few words about Jean-Marie Lustiger, the ...

Shalom Auslander’s memoir Foreskin’s Lament was published last week and seems to be selling quite well on Amazon. For those ...

Guest blogger Rabbi Jennifer Krause is the author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time.Dear ...

Maybe God really isn’t great. If He were so great, wouldn’t He have made sure Christopher Hitchens wasn’t nominated for ...

I’m a few years late, but I’ve finally gotten around to starting Professor David Berger’s The Rebbe, the Messiah, and ...

Since I can empathize with the desire to do theological housecleaning, I thought I’d post this email we just got ...