beliefs

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 ...

When philanthropist Charles Bronfman announced his intention to fund a two-year visiting chair at Brandeis for someone who could come ...

MSNBC is reporting that Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have left the Kabbalah kraze: “Ashton and Demi used to have ...

Last fall there was a good deal of blog chatter and press coverage about a study released by Steve M. ...

Welcome to the first installment of “From the Academy,” in which I (will hopefully) check in with Jewish Studies professors ...

There’s an old saying “Man plans and God laughs,” but recently I realized that, in the Bible, it’s God who ...

No joke. Heeb magazine’s humor editor David Deutsch takes on Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna in an op-ed in this week’s ...

Recent stories about conversion standards in Israel have revolved around halakhic observance (or the lack thereof), but an interesting case ...