“And you shall lay down, and no man shall terrify you….” Whenever I stand up in shul on Shabbat and ...

Within Israel and in the greater Jewish world there are differing views as to whether there is a religious nature to Israel's Independence Day.

For Jewish mystics, nature is a sacred text.

When and why Jews say an abbreviated Amidah. Full text and translation of Havinenu included.

In the Torah, women are absent at the covenantal moment; to make up for this, Jewish history must be reconstructed.

Scholars debate whether the Israelites recognized only one God or worshipped only one God.

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While the Torah does not forbid premarital sex, the rabbis of the talmudic era prohibited it--but one modern authority proposed a sanctioned form of exclusive sexual relationship outside of marriage.

Jews from Arab lands are gaining more and more influence in Israeli society.

Jewish women serving congregation, denomination, American and world Jewry