For a Christian, reading this book is like taking an introductory language course. You may not learn to speak the new language fluently, but in the process of studying it you discover a great deal ...

The divine cannot be reduced to scientific explanation or empirical inquiry. God exists beyond the categories through which ...

A JTA essay on “fictionalism” describes a worldview incapable of surviving more than a few generations, writes Rabbi Warren Goldstein. “It’s just what we Jews do,” Hershovitz explains. “[I]t keeps me ...

(The Conversation) — The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures and teachings – to the Israelites at Mount ...

After 50 years leading various congregations in prayer as a Hazzan, an ordained Cantor, I am at a crossroads. Does God hear my prayers? Must I recite every prayer line-by-line, even though, admittedly ...

But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I ...

This week’s Torah portion, Shemot, begins with a list of those who made their way down to Egypt from Canaan. While the Torah goes into detail about their dramatic stories back home, we know very ...

I once heard of a person who said I have wanted to convert to Reform Judaism for a few years now. However, I heard that Reform Jewish converts will not be accepted by all denominations as “officially ...

We live in the buckle of the Bible Belt,” said Beth Israel Congregation's leader. “We just have to be grateful for the ...

My mom was Jewish, so I am a Jew and glad of it. Dad was Jewish. That and a roll of nickels alone doesn’t make me Jewish, but it doesn’t hurt. If I had to pick one of the Big Three, I would say my Ima ...