Beliefs & Practices

Rabbi Eric Yoffie’s speech at the Islamic Society of North America conference has been flagged by other Jewish leaders as ...

I’ve often expressed my belief that Jewish triumphalism (be it biblical or theological) is dangerous because it will likely lead ...

It’s Elul for Michael Vick, too. After pleading guilty to charges related to his involvement in dogfighting, Vick gave a ...

If you haven’t yet, you must read the fascinating obituary of the French Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger. Lustiger was a close ...

During the second day of the “Why Be Jewish?” conference, Art Green taught several passages from the Sefat Emet and ...

I love Amazon. One can buy just about anything and everything. I personally use it for dog bones, Muppet DVDs, ...

While Palestinians continue to battle each other for control of Gaza, another battle involving Hamas is taking place on American ...

If there’s one thing the Jewish community is all-too often missing, it’s self-criticism. Groups and movements tend to blame other ...

Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who founded the Secular Humanistic Judaism movement, died in a car crash this weekend. He was 79. ...

Last week, NPR’s “Heard on the Street” featured a “debate” between Jew for Jesus Larry Dubin and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld ...

Yesterday, for the second time in a week, Pope Benedict XVI reversed positions of the Second Vatican Council, which in ...

In an effort to get smarter and diversify my knowledge, I’ve recently decided to try and read Wikipedia’s daily featured ...