Practices

Over at Cross-Currents, Eytan Kobre has referenced a recent JTA report as proof that the secular Jewish media doesn’t understand ...

It was an honest mistake on our part. We were too busy celebrating Jewish Social Action Month for most of ...

I just finished Vanessa Och’s book Inventing Jewish Ritual , which not only investigates the development, acceptance, and theory of ...

Apparently Paul Marx decided to answer my burning question from yesterday, “What is a black bar mitzvah?” With an op-ed ...

From AJWS’s Aaron Dorfman…As thousands of Buddhist monks continue to take to the streets of Rangoon in protest over ongoing ...

The Orthodox Union (OU) has just certified some additional flavors of Jelly Belly jelly beans as kosher: Berry Blue Buttered ...

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

Jennifer Bleyer, founding editor of Heeb Magazine, has an essay on the continued meaning that the Jewish Catalog has for her ...

My husband and I are just about to close on our first home next week. Looking for homes was a ...

The High Holidays can prove to be spiritually lacking, particularly for those of us who spend everyday surrounded by Judaism. ...